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Oreoscoptes montanus (Townsend). Sage Thrasher. [702.] 



Orpheus montanus J. K. Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 

 Pt. ii [Nov. 21, 1837], 192. (Plains of the Rocky Mountains = Sandy 

 Creek, lat. 42° N., long. 109° 30' W., Wyoming.) 



Range. — Arid sagebrush plains and foothills of the western United States. 

 Breeds in the Transition and Upper Austral zones from southern British Colum- 

 bia, central Montana, and western Nebraska south to southern California and 

 northern New Mexico. Winters from southern California and the mountains 

 of central Texas to northern Mexico (Chihuahua and Tamaulipas), Cape San 

 Lucas, and casuaUy to Guadalupe Island. 



Family TURDIDAE. Thrushes, Bluebirds, Stonechats, 

 AND Solitaires. 



Genus ARCEUTHORNIS Kaup. 



Arceuthornis Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 93. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Turdus -pilaris Linnaeus (Gray, 1842). 



• Arceuthornis musicus (Linnaeus). Red-winged Thrush. [760.] 



Turdus musicus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 169. (in Europae 

 sylvis = Sweden.) 



Range. — Europe and Asia. Breeds in the northern countries. Winters 

 from the British Isles and southern Europe to India and Persia. Accidental 

 in Greenland (Frederikshaab, October 20, 1845) .^ 



Genus TURDUS Linnaeus. 



Turdus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 168. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Turdus merula Linnaeus (Selby, 1825) . 



Turdus migratorius migratorius Linnaeus. Eastern Robin. [761.] 



Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 292. Based 

 mainly on The Fieldfare of CaroUna, Turdus pilaris, migratorius 

 Catesby, Carolina, I, 29. (in America septentrionali = South Carolina, 

 winter migrant.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Boreal, Transition, and Upper Austral zones from 

 limit of trees in northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, 

 northern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to Cook Inlet, Alaska, central 

 Alberta, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. 

 Winters from central Kansas, Ohio Valley, and eastern Massachusetts (irreg- 

 ular farther north) to the Gulf coast and southern Florida, and to Nuevo 



1 Reinhardt, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 439; referred to A. m. coburni Sharpe by 

 SchicSler. 



