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Adult female. —Length (skins), 152-172 (161); wing, 86-96.5 (90.6); 

 tail, 64.5-74 (66.4); exposed culmen, 13-15 (13.9); tarsus, 28.5-31.5 

 (29.7); middle toe, 16-19 (17.5).« 



Eastern North America; breeding from Massachusetts (Marthas 

 Vineyard; Taconic Mountains, Berkshire County, 1,000 to 2,900 feet), 

 Connecticut (Bear Mountains; Norfolk; Litchfield ?), New York 

 (Catskills, 2,300 to 2,600 feet; Peterboro; Lake Ronkonkoma, Long 

 Island ?), mountains of PennsAdvania (Clearfield, Elk, and Monroe 

 counties), Ontario, northern Michigan (Macinac Island), etc., north- 

 ward to Labrador (Chateau Bay), and through Manitoba and Atha- 

 basca (Fort Chippewyan), to Mackenzie (Fort Simpson; Fort Reso- 

 lution; Fort Smith); during migration southward to Gulf States 

 (Florida to Texas'*) and to Cuba,*^ wintering northward (regularly) to 

 about 39°, occasionally to lower Hudson Valley, New York; acciden- 

 tal in Greenland (Amaraglik, near Godthaab, June, 1845) and in 

 Europe (Heligoland, Belgium, Austria, etc.) ; occasional in Bermudas 

 during migration. 



Turdus sohtarius (not of .Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 95 (not pi. 43, 

 fig. 2, which=£r. ustiilata sivainsonii). — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., iv, 1824, 275 (crit.); Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 17; Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 270.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 91; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 29, 

 pi. 146. — Thienemann, Rliea, i, 1846, 125 (Vienna, Austria !). — Thompson, 

 Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 80.— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 310 

 (Wisconsin). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1857, 117 (Nova Scotia). — 

 Willis, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 281 (Nova Scotia).— 

 Bland, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 287 (Bermudas).— 

 Degland and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., i, 1867, 426 (Europe, accidental). — Trippe, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 115 (Minnesota). 



^Twenty- three specimens. 



Specimens from the Atlantic coast district compare with those from the Mississippi 

 Valley and northern interior as follows : 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Atlantic coast district 



Ten adult males from Mississippi Valley 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Atlantic coast district 



Ten adult females from Mississippi Valley , 



Three adult females from Athabasca, Alberta, and Macken- 

 zie 



Middle 

 toe. 



17.9 

 17 



17.8 

 17.2 



& Texas localities are as follows: San Antonio, January to March; Corpus Christi, 

 March; Leon Springs, March; Gainesville, March; Fort Clark, December 27 (one 

 specimen); Concho County, spring; Kendall County, March; extreme western local- 

 ities represented by specimens examined are Cantonment Burgwyn, New Mexico 

 (autumn or winter), and Grand Cache, Alberta, September 22. 



c Not a single extralimital specimen seen by me. 



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