25G 



BULLETIN OF THE 



as breeding in this manner on the Lower Mississippi would solve an in- 

 teresting problem. 



The following table will indicate tin' average size of Turdus Pallasi in 

 the Atlantic States. The extremes in size of forty-six specimens are as 

 follows : Length, G.50 and 7.G5 ; alar extent, 10.00 and 12.25 ; wing, 3.30 

 and 3.90 ; tail, 2.-17 and 3.17 ; tarsus, 1.12 and 1.33. The average dimen- 

 sions of these specimens are as follows : Length, 7.04 ; alar extent, 11.17 ; 

 wing, 3.7D; tail, 2.72; tarsus, 1.15. 



Measurements of Specimens o/ Turdus Pallast. 



4.t Turdus fuscescens Stephens. Wilson's Thrush. 



mustelinus Wilson, Am. Orn., V, 98, pi. xliii, 1812. (Not T.muste- 

 Units Gmelin.) 



