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rictal bristles one fourth the length of culmen. Wing somewhat pointed; first 
quill one third of second, rounded at tip; fourth and fifth equal and longest; 
third and sixth equal and sligthly shorter; second longer than eigth. Tail shorter 
than wing. Tarsus considerably larger than middle toe and claw; outer toe and 
claw decidedly longer than inner toe and claw; claws shorter and straighter than in 
Mimocichla. 
ardosiaca Gray, Handl. Birds I. 263. = Mimus plumbeus Gray. 
plumbea Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. 1865. 371. = Mimus plumbeus Gray. 
MIHIIS (Liotrichidae. — fUfJioç imitator). — Boie, Oken's Isis 1826. 972. — 
Gray, Genera Birds I. 220. — Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras. III. 126. 
— Baird, Birds NAmerica 343. 
Sxjnon.: Orpheus Swains. — Orphaeus Stein. — Calandria Desm. — Mimetes Glog. 
— Galeoscoptes Cab. — Spodesilaura Reichb. — Melanotes, Felivox, Buglodytes Bonap. — 
Mimocichla Sclat. — Leucomimus, Scotiomimus, Mimokitta Bryant. 
Bill shorter than the head, decurved from the base; distinctly notched at the 
tip. Tarsi longer than the middle toe; lateral toes equal, not reaching the base 
of the middle claw, and shorter than the hind toe, the claw of which is half the 
total length. Tail variable, equal to or longer than the wings, moderately 
graduated. Wings rounded; the exposed portion of the first nearly or quite half 
that of the second, which is considerably shorter than the third. — 28 Specc. 
albicilius. — cf. Buglodytes albicilius Bonap. 
bahamensis Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. 1859. VII. 114. = Mimus Gund- 
lachi Cab. 
brasiliensis Pz. Wied, Beitr. Natg. Bras. III. 662. = Donacobius atricapillus Gray. 
calandria Gray, Genera Birds I. 221. — Burmeister, syt. Uebers. Th. Bras. 
III. 126. [Brasilia merid. Paraguay. 
Calandria Azara, Apuntam. II. 231. 
Orpheus calandria d'Orbigny, Voy. Amér. mérid. 206. Tb. 10. Fig. 2. 
Mimus orpheus Darwin, Voy. Beagle Zool. 60. 
Calandria. 
carolinensis Gray, Genera Birds I. 221. — Baird, Birds WAmerica 346. 
Muscicapa carolinensis Linné, Syst. Nat. I. 328. 
Turdus carolinensis Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. 38. 
Turdus lividus Wilson, amer. Ornith. II. 90. Tb. 14. Fig. 3. 
Turdus felivox Vieillot, Oiseaux Amér. sept. II. 10. Tb. 67. — Audubon, 
Ornith. Biogr. II. 171; V. 440. Tb. 128. 
Orpheus felivox Swainson, Faun. bor. amer. II. 192. 
Orpheus carolinensis Audubon, Birds America II. 195. Tb. 140. 
Felivox carolinensis Bonaparte, Collect. Delattre 39. 
Mimus felivox Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 276. 
Galeoscoptes carolinensis Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 82. 
Spodesilaura Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. Tf. 53. 
Cat Bird. 
carunculatus Buller, Ornith. new Zeald. = Anthochaera Bulleri Finsch. 
caudatus Baird, Birds NAmerica 345. (cauadatus). = Mimus polyglottus Boie. 
coerulescens Gray, Genera Birds I. 221. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856. 
294. [Mexico. 
Turdus coerulescens Swainson, Philos. Magaz. 1827. I. 369. 
Turdus melanotis Temminck, PI. color. 498. 
Melanotis coerulescens Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 276. 
columbianus Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 82. = Mimus melanopterus Lawr. 
curvirostris Gray, Genera Birds I. 221. = Harporhynchus curvirostris Cab. 
doniinicas Gray, Genera Birds I. 221. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859. 
341. [Hispaniola. 
Merula dominicensis Brisson, Ornith. II. 284. 
Turdus dominicus Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 295. 
Turdus merle Müller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 
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