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Seiiiriis ludoTiciaiiiis. 



I Turdu"^ ludovicianns, Add. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 99, pi. xix. — Sfutrus ludo- 



viciunus, Bon. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 262, pi. Ixxx, fig. 2. 

 —Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 363 (Xalapa) ; 373 (Oaxaca) ; 1861, 

 70 (Jamaica). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 273 (Guatemala). — 

 Henicodchla lud. Sclater, Catal. 1861, 25, no. 161 (Orizaba). 

 fTurdus molacilla, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 9, pi. 65 (Kentucky). 

 (Can hardly refer to anything else ; still, markings of side of head 

 very different.) — Seiurus motacilla, Box. 1850. — Henicodchla mot. 

 Cab. Jour. 1857, 240 (Cuba).— Gcxdlach, Jour. Orn. 1861, 326. 

 Henicodchla major, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850 (Xalapa). 



Hab. Eastern province of United States, as far north as Carlisle, Pa., and 

 Michigan ; Cuba and Jamaica ; southern Mexico (Colima) to Guatemala. 



Most specimens of this bird from the West Indies, and regions 

 south of the United States, exhibit a decided ochraceous wash ou 

 the sides and crissum, quite marked in comparison with northern 

 skins. I am, however, inclined to consider this a condition of late 

 autumnal plumage, as it is most strongly marked in a specimen from 

 Cuba, collected in October, by Mr. Wright ; while another killed in 

 the middle of January is quite as free from an ochraceous wash as 

 spring specimens from Carlisle and Washington. 



This species, formerly considered very rare, has been taken, during 

 the past few years, about Washington, in considerable numbers by 

 Messrs. Prentiss and Coues. They have also found Turdus alicias 

 abundant in the same time — a species only detected and distinguished 

 from T. swainaoni in 1858. 



Specimens from numerous localities in the United States as far 

 north as Carlisle, Pa., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and west to Inde- 

 pendence, Mo. Extra-limital localities are — 



