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TURDUS GRAYI GRAYI Bonaparte 



Turdus Orayi Bonaparte, Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1837 (June 14, 1838), p. 118 

 (Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala). 



Near Tres Zapotes we secured specimens on March 27 and 30, 1939, 

 and March 4 and 14 and May 14, 1940. These birds had the usual 

 habit of tropical thrushes of living in dense undergrowth or in the 

 borders of heavier forests, coming up into the tree tops to sing. The 

 call is a high-pitched pup pup pup, an imitation in higher tone of the 

 note of our northern robins, and the somewhat indefinite song is also 

 robinlike but also suggested to me the notes of an oriole. The natives 

 call them primavera, as they say that they come in spring. Carriker 

 secured two in the outskirts of Tlacotalpam on February 15 and 16, 

 but he saw no others until early in March. Possibly they may come 

 into the Tres Zapotes region from elsewhere to breed, but it seems 

 more probable that they remain under cover and are overlooked. In 

 April I heard them singing daily near our camp. 



One male taken on March 30 at Tres Zapotes is lighter, less brown- 

 ish, than the others, showing some approach to the coastal race 

 tainaulipensis. It is, however, darker on the dorsum and the flanks 

 than the average of that race, and is placed with grayi. 



MYADESTES UNICOLOR UNICOLOR Sclater 



Myiadestes unicolor P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856 (Jan. 26, 1857), 

 p. 299 (Cordoba, Veracruz). 



Above 2,000 feet on Cerro de Tuxtla Carriker found this to be a 

 common bird. On March 11 he took two specimens, with others on 

 March 13 and 29 and April 3. At his first visit they were in full 

 song, but he thought that actual nesting did not come until April. 

 On Volcan San Martin he secured two on April 20, and considered 

 this the most common bird at the higher altitudes. He recorded many 

 on the rim of the crater where he heard at its best the beautiful song. 

 The species is known as jilguero on Tuxtla and as clarin on San 

 Martin. There is a female in the National Museum taken by Nelson 

 and Goldman on May 12, 1894, marked "Volcano Tuxtla." The label 

 states that this bird was found \vith a nest containing two eggs. The 

 latter apparently did not reach the Museum as they are not to be 

 found in the collection now. 



HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA (Gmelin) : Wood Thrush 



Turdus mu8telinus Gmki.in, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 817 (New 

 York). 



On March 23, 1939, I heard the familiar call of the wood thrush 

 in swampy woodland near the Laguna del Tular and called two into 



