to the Genera of North American Birds, 51 



shores of the Oregan, and Nootka Sound. * Found also ia 

 Mexico. 



GENUS Xir. BOMBYCILLA. 



65. bis. BoMBYCiLLA GARKULAj Vicill, Drab ; throat; front- 

 let and line over the eye, black ; belly cinereous, vent rufous ; 

 ■wings and tail blackish, the latter tipped Tyith yellow. 



Synonymes. 



Ampelis garrulus^ Lath, Syn. 2. p. 91. sp. 1. Gen, Hist, u 

 p. 838. sp. 1. 



Turdus bombycilla Bohemica^ Briss. ii. p. 333. sp. 63. 



Bombydvora garrula^ Temm. Man, d^Orn, i. p. 124. 



Le Jaseur de Boheme^ Buff, pi. enl. 261. 



Bohemian Chatterer^ Penn, Brit, Zool, i. sp. 112. t. 48. Lath, 

 5^w. iii. p. 91. sp, 1. 



Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains ; for a long time well known 

 in the north of Europe and Asia. The discovery of this bird in 

 America may lead to a more perfect knowledge of its chief place 

 of abode, whence at remote periods it migrates so irregularly. 



GENUS XX. bis. CINCLUS.f 



SturnuSy L, Gm, Tringa ! Briss, Motacilla, Scopoli, Turdus^ 

 Lath. 



CinduSy Bechst, Cuv, Temm, Ranz, 



Hydrobata^ Vieill. 



Bill moderate, slender, straight, compressed-subulate, feathered 

 at the base ; edges sharp, slightly incurved; upper mandible curved 



* It is a curious fact in Ornithological Geography, that the four Jays now 

 known to inhabit North America, should be confined to a peculiar section of 

 country; thus C. Canadensis is the northern Jay; C. Floridams the southern; 

 C. cristatus the eastern ; and the present the western representative of the 

 sub-genus. 



t N.B. In our Analytical Table of North American Genera, this genus 

 must take its place in the family of the Canori^ between the two genera 

 Myiothera and Turdus^ and be thus characterized : 



20. bis. CmcLUs. Bill subulate-compressed : tarsi smooth J heel naked, 



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