. The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad . , p. 254 (iSiS).Merula saltator HiLL. Comp. Jam. Aim. 1S42.—Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 140(1847).Merula Icucogenys GosSE, Bds. Jam. p. 136 (1847).Cat/iarusaurantius Bp. Compt. Rend. XXXVIII, p. 3 (1854).Semitnerula aurantia Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 84 (1S64).—A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (1881).Mimocichla aurantia ScL. «& Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873).Morula aurantia Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit.
. The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad . , p. 254 (iSiS).Merula saltator HiLL. Comp. Jam. Aim. 1S42.—Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 140(1847).Merula Icucogenys GosSE, Bds. Jam. p. 136 (1847).Cat/iarusaurantius Bp. Compt. Rend. XXXVIII, p. 3 (1854).Semitnerula aurantia Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 84 (1S64).—A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (1881).Mimocichla aurantia ScL. «& Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873).Morula aurantia Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. V, p. 247 (1881).—Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (1885). Sp. Char, il/—Top of head dark brown; chin white; abdomen dullwhite; the rest of plumage slaty brown ; wings and tail dark brown ;two of the greater wing-coverts next to the inner secondariesbroadly edged with white, giving a noticeable white marking tothe wing. Female:—Appears to be similar to the male, but is perhapssomewhat paler. Some specimens do not seem to difler at all incoloration. Length (skin), ; wing, 5; tail, 4; tarsus, ; bill, . Jamaica. Cory on the Birds of the West Merula gymnophthalma (Cabax.). Turdus gymnopJithal-mus Cab. Guian. Ill, (1S48). —Gray,Handl. Bds. I, p. 257(1S69).—ScL. & Avium Neotr. (1S73).—Seebohm,Cat. Bds. Brit. , p. 212 (1881). Turdusgyinnopsis Temm. fide Bp. Consp. I, p. 272 (1S50). Turdus nudigenis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 4.—Leot. Ois. Trinid. (1S66). Turdus caribbceus Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 160 (1S78) ; ib. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 (1878). Turdusgymuogenys ScL. & Salv. Ibis, 1879, P- 357- Merula gymnophthalma CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (18S5). Sp. Char. Male:—Above dull olive brown; underparts pale brown;throat pale, mottled with dull brown; belly pale, showing markingsof dull white on the crissum ; under wing-coverts pale sexes are similar. Length (skin), 8
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