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being found below 5000 feet, both near Duefias and at Tactic in Vera Paz, and also 
occurring in some numbers in the pine-forests of the summit of the Volcan de Fuego, 
as high as 12,000 feet, and in the main Cordillera above Totonicapam at a height of 
10,500 feet. It does not seem to be found only in one class of forest; for the plains 
near Duefias, where [pomea murocoides abounds, the oak-forests of the volcano, and 
the pine-forests of the upper parts, the pine-tracts of Quezaltenango and Totoni- 
capam, and the forests it frequents in Vera Paz are each very different in character. 
It, however, is not so much an inhabitant of the belt of dense forest of mixed trees 
which surrounds the volcano between 7000 and 10,000 feet ; and it is altogether absent 
from the forests of the hotter parts of Guatemala, which lie below 4000 feet. 
We never found Turdus rufitorques breeding; but as birds were observed about 
Duefias and Quezaltenango in the month of August, it is probable that they had 
built in the vicinity of those places. It is not, however, a migratory species, except, 
perhaps, in a very limited sense. 
The habits of 7. rujfitorques recall those of 7. merula. It is rather shy, generally 
keeping out of gunshot. Its powers of song are not remarkable, and are certainly 
inferior to those of T. grayt. 
The curious rufous ring which surrounds the neck of this Thrush recalls the similar 
feature in the plumage of 7. albicincta of the Himalayas. The American bird, how- 
ever, is of not nearly so robust a form as the Asiatic species; and there are other 
differences between them. 
15. Turdus pinicola, 
Turdus pecilopterus, Licht. Mus. Berol. (fide Sclater), nee Nomencl. Av. p. 25. 
Turdus pinicola, Scl. P. Z.S. 1859, pp. 334", 362°, 1860, p. 250°, 1864, p. 172*; Cat. Am. B. p. 6, 
pl. 1’; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543°. 
S fusco-niger, capitis et dorsi plumarum scapis brunneis ; alarum tectricibus majoribus fumido albo late lim- 
batis, primariorum parte basali extus et intus macula magna alba occupata, apicibus eorum et secunda- 
riorum grisescenti-albo terminatis; primariis tertio, quarto et quinto extus macula alba apicem versus 
ornatis, secundariis medialiter albo extus marginatis ; cauda nigra, hujus tectricibus superioribus et rectri- 
cum apicibus albis; abdomine cum crisso et tectricibus alarum inferioribus albis ; rostro nigro, pedibus 
flavis. Long. tota 8°5, ale 5:3, caude 3:4, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Mexico. 
Mus. nostr.) 
@ brunnescentior, coloribus dilutioribus, gutture et pectore toto brunneis colore pallidiore marmoratis. (Deser. 
fem. ex Jalapa. Mus. P. L. 8.) 
Juv. supra capitis et dorsi plumis late ochraceis, dorsi postici ferrugineis ; subtus flavidus plumis singulis nigro 
marginatis. (Descr. juv. ex Oaxaca. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (de Oca‘), Orizaba (Sallé*), valley of Mexico (White+, le 
Strange), Moyoapam (Sumichrast *), Oaxaca (Lenochio). 
Though specimens of Turdus pinicola seem to have been in the Berlin Museum for 
some years, under the unpublished name of T. pecilopterus, no published name was given 
