18 TURDIDZ. 
10. Turdus grayi. 
Turdus grayi, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 118’; Scl. 1859, pp. 362 >, 870°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 5*; 
Owen, Ibis, 1861, p. 60°; Scl. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 172°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1864, p. 344 . 
1870, p. 836°; Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 182°, 1870, p. 180”; Ibis, 1866, p. 202", 1872, 
p. 314"; Baird, Rev. Am. B. p. 26%; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 175", ix. pp. 91”, 
199"; Grayson, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 266; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 11”; 
Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 276" ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543%; 
v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 290”. 
Turdus tristis, Scl. P.Z. S. 1856, p. 294° (nec Swains.). 
Turdus casius, Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 657”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 826. 
Turdus helvolus, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. (1830), cf. J. f. Orn. 1868, p. 57” (descr. nulla). 
Supra ochraceo-fuscus unicolor ; subtus cinnamomeus, gutture striolis fuscis notato ; subalaribus leete cervinis : 
rostro fusco, pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 9, ale 5, caudw 4:2, rostri a rictu 1-1, tarsi 1-3. (Deser. 
exempl. ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. supra dorsi plumis medialiter stricte cervinis, tectricibus alarum cervino terminatis; subtus plumis omni- 
bus fusco transfasciatis. (Descr. maris juv. ex Costa Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mzxico, Tepic and Tres Marias Islands (Grayson "' 1°), Cordova (Sallé 22). Jalapa 
(Deppe, Mus. Berol.® ; de Oca*), Choapam and Villa Alta (Bowcard*), State of 
Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ), Mirador (Sartorius 1), valley of Mexico (White ®, le 
Strange), Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast 1°), Merida, Yucatan (Schott 1°) ; 
GuateMALA!, Duefias+, Escuintla, Retalhuleu, San Gerdnimo®, Tactic, Coban 
(0. S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely®); San Sanvapor, 
Acajutla (J. M. Dow 8); Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson '*); Costa Rica, San José 
and Barranca (Carmiol 3), Quebrada Honda, Lepanto (v. Frantzius*'), Volcan de 
Cartago (Carmiol); Panama, V. de Chiriqui (Arcé 1°), David (Hicks *), Chitra and 
Santa Fé (Arcé®), Lion Hill (1 Leannan’ *4), Obispo (0. S.).—CoLomBIa. 
This well-known Central-American Thrush was first described by Bonaparte from 
Guatemalan specimens brought from that country by Col. Velasquez’. It had, how- 
ever, been previously received in the Berlin Museum from Deppe and Schiede, who had 
procured examples during their travels in Mexico near Jalapa?*. In his list of the 
birds collected by these travellers, Lichtenstein included this Thrush under the name of 
Turdus helveolus, but gave no description of it. 
Turdus grayi is one of the commonest species of Thrush in Mexico and. Central 
America, being found nearly everywhere in the hot and temperate districts from Tepic 
in the far north-west to Panama, and is a resident species wherever it occurs, except 
perhaps at the extreme north-western limits of its range. Grayson, to whom we are 
indebted for our knowledge of this district, says that it is at times abundant in the 
winter months on the Tres Marias Islands, and that it is frequently found in the “ tierra 
caliente” of the mainland, where he met with it breeding near Tepic in the month of 
May. He adds that it is gregarious and partially migratory. Prof. Sumichrast, who 
