ORDER PASSERIFORMES. 263 



Range. — Breeds in Sweden, Russia, and Siberia. Winters in northern 

 Africa and India. Casual or local in western Alaska, breeding at Cape Blos- 

 som 1 and Meade Point.^ [Allied races occur in Europe and Asia.] 



Genus CALLIOPE Gould. 



Calliope Gould, Birds Europe (Pt. 16), II, March 1, 1836, pi. 118 and 

 text. Type, by monotypy, Calliope lathami Gould = Motacilla 

 calliope Pallas. 



*^ Calliope calliope camtschatkensis (Gmelin) . Greater Kamchatka Nightin- 

 gale. [764.1.] 



Turdus camtschatkensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 817. (Camt- 

 schatca.) 



Range.' — -Northeastern Asia. Casual on Kiska Island, Alaska (June 17, 

 1911).^ [A closely allied race occurs in Siberia.] 



Genus MYADESTES Swainson. 



Myadestes Swainson, Nat. Libr., XIII, Flycatchers, 1838, 132. Type, 

 by monotypy, Myadestes genibarbis Swainson. 



Myadestes townsendi (Audubon). Townsend's Solitaire. [754.] 



Ptilogony's [sic] Townsendi Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, pi. 419, fig. 

 2, 1838 (Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 206). (Columbia River = near Astoria, 

 Oregon.) 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones from central eastern Alaska, southwestern 

 Mackenzie, and central western Alberta south through the Sierra Nevada to 

 the San Bernardino Mountains, California, and through the Rocky Mountains 

 to Arizona and New Mexico; reported breeding in the Transition Zone in the 

 mountains of Durango, Zacatecas, and Coahuila, Mexico. Winters from 

 southern British Columbia and Montana southward, straggling to northern 

 Lower California, central Texas, Kansas, and eastern Nebraska. Accidental 

 in lUinois and New York. 



1 Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 1, 1900, 64. 



2 Bishop, in litt. 



3 Bent, Smithson. Misc. Coll., LVI, No. 32, Feb. 12, 1912, 22. 



