Long tot. 9½ unc.; rost. 1¼; alæ, 4½; caudæ, 4½; tarsi, 1⅜.
The vertex, nape of the neck and the back, pale brown; the feathers of the head and the back, as far as the middle, of a darker colour; the wings intensely brown, with the margins of each of the feathers paler; the secondaries and the greater wing-coverts terminated with white marks, giving the appearance of two transverse bands; the feathers of the tail blackish brown, with the tips white; the lores and the feathers of the ears blackish brown, the feathers of the sides with a central brown mark, the abdomen white; the bill and feet black.
Habitat, Chatham and James’s Islands, Galapagos Archipelago. (October.)
Birds. Pl. 16.
Mimus trifasciatus.
Birds. Pl. 17.
Mimus melanotis.
Birds. Pl. 18.
Mimus parvulus.