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10 TURDIDZ. 
b. Minores, cauda dorso concolor. 
2. Turdus fuscescens. “ 
Turdus fuscescens, Steph., Shaw’s Zool. x. p. 182°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 826°; Baird, 
Rev. Am. B. p. 17°; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p.92*; Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B.1. p. 9°; 
Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 57°; Merrill, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 119”. 
Turdus (Hylocichla) fuscescens, Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 39°. 
Supra rufescenti-brunneus unicolor; subtus albus, colli lateribus et pectore rufescentibus maculis subtriangu- 
laribus brunneis parce adspersis ; rostro corylino, mandibule basi et pedibus flavis. Long. tota 6:8, ale 
3:8, caudee 2°75, rostri a rictu °9, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Washington, D.C., Smiths. Inst. no. 28230. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. N. America, Canada, Eastern States, and westwards to Utah, Colorado, and 
Texas®8.—Panama, Lion Hill (Jf/Leannan)*, Aspinwall (Mus. Boucard).—S. 
America to the Amazon*; Cua °. 
An excellent account of this species, as regards its range within the limits of North 
America, its habits and synonymy, is given in Dr. Coues’s ‘ Birds of the Colorado 
Valley’®, and in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway’s work®. In the former Dr. Coues 
remarks on the absence of Turdus fuscescens from Arizona and New Mexico, and adds 
that it must take a somewhat circuitous route in gaining its winter home in Central 
America. But the records of the occurrence of this species outside the limits of the 
United States are so scanty that it can hardly be said that we really know where the 
major portion of the winter migrants go during that season. It is quite rare in Cuba °; 
and as far as Central America and Mexico are concerned, we have Dr. Merrill’s authority 
for its occurrence in the valley of the Rio Grande’; but from this point, if we except 
Prof. Sumichrast’s doubtful reference to the occurrence of this species near Orizaba*, 
we have no trace of it whatever until we come to Panama, where M‘Leannan obtained a 
single specimen’, and whence we have recently seen another in the possession of 
Mons. Boucard, to whom it was sent from Aspinwall. These two specimens are our 
authority for including Turdus fuscescens in this work. Passing into South America we 
have only five instances of the occurrence of the species there. Herr von Pelzeln 
records * that Natterer obtained four specimens in December at San Vicente in Brazil ; 
and Mr. H. Wickham also shot one at Santarem on the Amazon. This last-named 
specimen we once had an opportunity of examining. 
3. Turdus swainsoni. Vv 
Brown Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 28°; Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 19”. 
Turdus swainsoni, Cab., Tsch. Faun. Per. p. 188°; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 451°; Baird, Rev. Am. B. 
p- 19°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 91°; Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 117 (2); 
Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. p. 14°; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 58°. 
* Mem. Bost. Soc N. H. 1. p. 5438. 
