. The Auk. Birds. II Cory o/i the Birds of tin- West Indies. [January iSSo, p. 39.—Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (18S0).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (1S85). CicJdherininia montana Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 330 (18S1). Sp. Char. Male:—Upper plumage dark olive brown; throat and breast brown, the feathers edged with white; feathers of the lower breast dull white, banded with pale brown, the whole giving a mottled white and brown appearance to the underparts; wings and tail dark brown ; the inner secondaries and some of the coverts tipped with white ; tail-feathers tipped with


. The Auk. Birds. II Cory o/i the Birds of tin- West Indies. [January iSSo, p. 39.—Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (18S0).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (1S85). CicJdherininia montana Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 330 (18S1). Sp. Char. Male:—Upper plumage dark olive brown; throat and breast brown, the feathers edged with white; feathers of the lower breast dull white, banded with pale brown, the whole giving a mottled white and brown appearance to the underparts; wings and tail dark brown ; the inner secondaries and some of the coverts tipped with white ; tail-feathers tipped with white ; bill and feet dark brown. The female is somewhat lighter brown than the male on the under surface. Length (skin), ; wing, ; tail, ; tarsus, i; bill, .65. Habitat. Martiniciiie. St. Vincent, Dominica. Santa Lucia, and Guadeloupe. Genus Ramphocinclus RawpIioci>icliis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 66. Ramphocinclus brachyurus (Vieill.). Tardus hrac/iyiir/isYiKii^'L. Nonv. Diet. XX, p. 255 (1S18).—Gray, Gen. Bds. L p. -19 (1844). Pterodroma mcxicanus Less. Ann. Soc. Nat. 2d ser. IX, p. 168 (1S3S). Ratnphocinclus brachyurus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 66.—Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 166.—Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 41 (1864).—Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 264 (1S69).—ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873). —Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 (1878).—Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (1885). For?nicarius brachyurus Gray', Gen. Bds. 1, p. 211 (1844). Lcgriociiichis mcxicanus Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 278 (1847). Campylorhynchus brachyurus Gray, Gen. Bds. Ill, App. p. 7 (1849). Zoothera cinclops Bp. Consp. I, p. 253 (1850). Cincloccrthia brachyurus ScL. P. Z. S. 1S55, p- 214. Rhamphocinclus brachyurus Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, P- 33^; '^- 1871, p. 268.— Allen, Bull. Nntt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (1880).—Sharpe. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 325 (1881).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced


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