TURDUS. 



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The Turdus minimus of Mr. Lawrence, from Panama, is even 

 more like typical North American birds. 



It is quite possible that neither of these specimens belongs to the 

 true T. minimus of Lafresnaye, as this author speaks of his bird 

 being of a smoky brown tinge above, "just as in Seiurus aquaticus 

 (noveboracensis),'' a decidedly different color. 



List of Specimens. 



(2,206.) 7.40; 12.08; 4.08. (8,302.) Iris browtj. 



Turdus aliciae. 



Tardus alicix, BaiSd, Birds N, Am. 1858, 217, pi. 81, fig. 2.— Coues, Pr. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Aug. 1861, 217 (Labrador) 



The validity of this species, first established in 1858, in the " Birds 

 of North America," has since been substantiated, and its geographical 

 distribution ascertained by numerous specimens in the Museum of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Labrador and the Lower Mackenzie 

 River, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, and to the 

 south, Costa Rica, have all been added to the regions known to be 

 inhabited by it. It is, in fact, a very remarkable circumstance, that 

 for two or three years past it has been more abundant around Wash- 



• Type of minimus of Lawrence. 



