234 Catalogue of Birds from Pu?ia Island. 



mation, because it composed or capped the bold bluffs of the 

 river-banks. Ir is often, however, only a facing to the rocky 

 cliffs, which are the true walls of these valleys, and which are 

 monuments of an age long anterior to the date of its deposi- 

 tion. 



XI. — Catalogue of Bird* from Puna Island, Gulf of Guayaquil, 

 in the Museum of die SmiOisonian Institution, collected by J. F. 

 Reeve, Esq. 



By Geo. N. Lawrence. 



Read May 10th, 1869. 



Fam. Turdidae. 

 1. Turd us rccvei, pp. nov. 



The upper plumage and wing coverts are of a dark bluish plumbeous, 

 with numerous darker narrow wavy lines, like water-marks, on the fea- 

 thers of the upper parts except the head; the front and sides of the 

 head are tinged with brownish ; the central tail feathers and outer webs 

 of the others arc of a rather duller plumbeous than the back, the outer 

 feather having only an edging of that color, all the inner webs are 

 brownish-black j primaries brownish-black, with plumbeous outer mar- 

 gins, the other quills have their exposed portions the color of the back, 

 the concealed parte brownish-black; throat and under tail covi rts pale 

 whitish-fulvous, the former streaked with blackish on the upper part; 

 lower part of neck and upper part of breast light grayish fulvous; all 

 the remaining under plumage and under wing coverts of a brownish- 

 fulvous, paler on the middle and lower parts of the abdomen ; bill \ ellow, 

 clouded with brownish at the base; tarsi and toes pale yellowish. 



Third quill leather the longest, the first and sixth equal. 



Length (skin) 9\ inches; wing 4 : ( ; tail 4; bill}; tarsi i.J. 



Type in Mus. Smithsonian Institution, No. 54,102. 

 Remarks. This does not require comparison with any other 

 ; it comes nnder the section Planesticus ; the sex of the 



'•imen is not given. 



