24 TURDIDA. 
to the bird until Mr. Sclater described it, in 1859, from specimens obtained near Jalapa, 
in Mexico, by Sefior de Oca, who found a pair on the highland, amongst the pines 1. 
Other collectors have since met with it in similar localities 234; but it would appear to 
be a rare species, of very restricted range. It only once came under Prof. Sumichrast’s 
notice, when he found it at Moyoapam °, in the pine-woods north of the valley of 
Orizaba, at a height of about 8400 feet above the sea. 
The singular variegated plumage of this species renders it easily distinguishable from 
all other American species. The only Thrush that at all approaches it in this respect 
is Turdus nevius, a bird which Prof. Baird places in a separate subgenus, Hesperocichla, 
from the rest of the Thrushes, and in which Mr. Seebohm has found characters in 
common with the Asiatic genus Geocichla and also with Oreocincla. 
16. Turdus infuscatus. 
Merula infuscata, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 417. 
Turdus infuscatus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 6°; Scl. P.Z.S. 1859, pp. 334°, 3624, 870°; Sumi- 
chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 548°. 
g niger unicolor, rostro et pedibus flavis. Long. tota 8-7, ale 4:9, caude 3-8, rostri a rictu ‘95, tarsi 1°15. 
(Descr. maris ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostvr.) 
2 brunnescens, subtus dilutior, gutture striato, subalaribus rufis; rostro fusco, pedibus flavis. (Descr. fem. 
ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. P. L. 8.) 
Juv. brunneus, abdomine dilutiore et fusco maculato, tectricibus alarum fulvo terminatis, (Sp. ex Guatemala. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (de Oca**), Totontepec (Boucard®), mountains of Orizaba (Su- 
michrast °); GUATEMALA®, Coban, ridge above S. Gerénimo, Quezaltenango (0. S. 
& FD. G.). 
Turdus infuscatus was originally described by the late Baron Lafresnaye !, whose type 
we have examined, from a Mexican specimen ; and several more recent explorers have 
found it in that country4®. Prof. Sumichrast gives as its habitat, in the State of Vera 
Cruz ®, the temperate and alpine regions, and says that in the lower part of the alpine 
and the upper and wooded part of the temperate is the favourite resort of this 
Thrush. He adds that it is quite common in these localities at the foot of the 
mountains, at elevations of from 4200 to 8400 feet above the sea. 
In Guatemala it is by no means a common bird; but we met with it more frequently 
near Coban, in Vera Paz, than elsewhere. Here it was usually found in the patches 
of older forest which clothe the summits of the curious conical hills which so abound 
in this district. A young specimen in our collection most probably came from near 
Coban, proving that 7. infuscatus is a resident species, as we also observed it in 
November and January, a season at which the bird would not be breeding. Our speci- 
mens were all obtained near Coban; for, though we observed this Thrush in the forest 
of the mountain ridge above San Gerdnimo, and at Quezaltenango, near enough to 
