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NORTH AMERICAN 15IRDS. 



Habits. At jivesont we liave hut little knowledge of the habits of tliis foriii 

 of T. pullufii, and \m information whatever regarding its nesting or eggs. 



In its distribution it is confined to the central range of mountains from 

 Fort Bridger to Southern Me.xico. This species, there known as " Solitario," 

 is comniou in the Alpine region of \'era Cruz (as well as in all the elevatt'd 

 regions of Central ^Mexico), frequenting the pine woods in the district of 

 Orizaba. I\Ir. Sumichrast obtained it at all seasons of the year at Moyoapara, 

 in that vicinity ; a locality the height of which ajjproxiiuates 2,500 metres. 

 It is also found at a height of 1,200 metres, near the city of Orizaba. 



Mr. IJidgway calls this bird the " Rocky Mountain Hermit Thrush." 

 He states that he found it common in the Wahsatch Mountains, but that, 

 on account of its retiring habits, it was seldom seen. It there lives 

 chiefly in the deep ravines in the pine region, exhibiting an attachment to 

 these solitudes rather than to the thickets along the watercourses lower 

 down; the latter it leaves to the T. siraiiisoni. Owing to the reserved 

 manners of this bird, as well as to the great difficulty of reaching its al)ode, 

 there were few opportunities jjresented for learning much concerning its 

 habits, nor did he hear its song. In its flight the pale ochraceous band across 

 the base? of its quills was a very conspicuous feature in the appearance of 

 its species, leading ]Mr. IJidgway to mistake it at first for the M/findcxti's 

 iawnsendii, — also an inhabitant of the same localities, — so much did it 

 look like that bird, which it further resembled in its noiseless, gliding flight. 



Subgenus TURD US, I-ink. 



Of Tardus, in its most restricted sense, we have no ]iurely American 



representatives, although it 

 belongs to the fauna of the 

 New World in consei|uence 

 of one species occurring 

 in Greenland, that meet- 

 ing-ground of the birds 

 of America and Europe ; 

 which, however, we include 

 in the present work, as 

 related nuich more closely 

 to the former. 



This Greenland species, 

 Turdvs iliacus, is closely 

 related to T. viscivorus, the 

 type of the genus, and 

 comes much closer to the 



Turdus iliacus. 



American IJobins (PlanesHcns) than to the Wood Thrushes (Ili/hicichla). 



