. The Auk. Birds. Cory oii fJic Birds of the West Indies. [January Merula gymnophthalma (Caban.). Tiirdiis gynniopJithal- miis Cau. Schomb. Reis. Guian. Ill, p. 665 (1S4S). —Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 257 (1S69J.—ScL. &Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. I (1873). — Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mas. V, p. 212 (iSSi). Tiirdtts gyvmopsis "; fide Bp. Consp. I, p. 272 (1850). Tiirdus niidigenis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 184S, p. 4.—Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 20 (1866). Turdits caribbcrits Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 160 (1S78) ; ib. Pr_ U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S6 (1878). Tiirdusgvm)iogen\'s ScL. &
. The Auk. Birds. Cory oii fJic Birds of the West Indies. [January Merula gymnophthalma (Caban.). Tiirdiis gynniopJithal- miis Cau. Schomb. Reis. Guian. Ill, p. 665 (1S4S). —Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 257 (1S69J.—ScL. &Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. I (1873). — Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mas. V, p. 212 (iSSi). Tiirdtts gyvmopsis "; fide Bp. Consp. I, p. 272 (1850). Tiirdus niidigenis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 184S, p. 4.—Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 20 (1866). Turdits caribbcrits Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 160 (1S78) ; ib. Pr_ U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S6 (1878). Tiirdusgvm)iogen\'s ScL. & Salv. Ibis, 1879, P- 357- Merula gymnopJiflialnui CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (1885).. Sp. Char. Male:—Above dull oli\e brown: underparts pale brown; throat pale, mottled with dull brown; belly pale, showing markings of dull white on the crissum ; under wing-coverts pale rufous. The sexes are similar. Length (skin), ; wing. ; tail, 4: tarsus. Habitat. Grenada, Trinidad, anil Tobai^o. Specimens taken in Grenada \'arv .slio-htly in size and colora- tion from Sontli American examples. l)nt are apparently the same. Merula nigrirostris (Lawr.). Tardus itigrirosfris Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 147 (187S).— Lister, Ibis, iSSo, p. 39. — Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. V, p. 21S (1881). Merula ?iigrirostris Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (18S5). ^•Female :—Front, crown, and occiput dark warm brown, each feather of the crown and occiput with a f?haft-stripe of dull pale rufous; upper plumage reddish oli\'aceous brown, deeper in color on the upper part of the back and on the wing-coverts: the latter Inne their ends marked with small spots of bright rufous, which possiblv may be an evidence of the example not being fully mature; the tail is of a dark wai-m brown, the shafts black: inner webs of quills blackish brown; the outer webs reddish brown, of the same color as the tail- feathers; the shafts are glossy black; under lining of wings clear cinnamon red; un
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