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to be but one other — also in the collection of the National Museum — which 

 was taken in North America, at St. Michael's, Alaska, by Dr. Dall, during 

 the Russian Telegraph Expedition. The species is normally confined to the 

 Old World, where it has an extensive range, being found throughout Europe, 

 in northern Africa, and in Asia from northern Siberia to Japan, China, and 

 India. 



Oroscoptes montanus (Towns.). 



Sage Thrasher. 



Oreoscoptes montanus Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 188.3, 534 (Cape Region). 

 Oroscoptes montanus Bktant, Proc. .Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 313, Sli 

 (Cape Region). 



Mr. Belding notes the Sage Thrasher as rare in the Cape Region. He does 

 not state just when or where he found it, but the collection of the National 

 Museum contains two specimens (No. 86,233, ^, and No. 86,234, 9)> taken 

 by him at La Paz on January 27, 1882. Mr. Frazar is very sure that he saw 

 one on the road between San Jose del Cabo and Miraflores on November 18, 

 1887, but, with this possible exception, he did not meet with the species, nor 

 has it been detected further to the northward by Mr. Bryant. Mr. Anthony, 

 however, attests its presence " along the northwest coast in spring under 1,000 

 feet altitude" (Bryant), and also reports that it " ^-inters in comparative 

 abundance " throughout most of the region about San Fernando.^ 



The Ijirds obtained at La Paz by Mr. Belding are larger and much deeper 

 colored than any of my Texas skins, but they are closely matched by several 

 specimens in my collection from Riverside, California. 



The Sage Thrasher ranges northward, on or near the Pacific coast, to 

 British Culumbia, but does not appear to be common at many places west of 

 the Sierras. I have several specimens from the city of Chihuahua, but none 

 from the western part of Mexico. 



Mimus polyglottos leucopterus (Vigors). 

 Western Mockixgbird. 



Mimus pol yglottus [not Turdns polyglottos Linnaeus) Eaird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phiia., 1859, 301 (Cape St. Lucas), 303 (crit. ; Cape St. Lucas). Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1879, 36, part (crit.; Cape St. Lucas). 

 Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 534 (Cape Region) ; VI. 1883, 345 

 (Cape Region). 



Mimus polyglottos (not Turdus polyglottos Linnaeus) Bktant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 

 2d ser., IL 1889, 314 (Cape Region). 



Mimus polyglottos leucopterus Mearns, Auk, XIX. 1902, 70-72 (orig. descr. ; char- 

 actors drawn from Lower California and other material). 



1 Anthony, Auk, XII. 1895, 142. 



