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(or both); chin immaculate white; throat white, rather broadly 

 streaked with white and dusky; chest, breast, upper abdomen, sides, 

 flanks, axillars, and under w4ng-coverts, clear deep buff (the feathers 

 in winter plumage margined terminally with white; lower abdomen 

 and anal region white; under tail-coverts white terminally, most of 

 the concealed (and part of exposed) portion brownish gray; l)ill 

 3^ellow, with terminal portion of culmen dusky (this more extensive 

 in winter, when the whole maxilla is more or less tinged with brown- 

 ish; iris brown; legs and feet horn brownish (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 222-255 (232); wing, 133-140.5 (137.2); tail, 101-lOS (104.9); 

 exposed culmen, 20-24 (22); tarsus, 30-33 (31.7); middle toe, 19.5- 

 22.5 (21.2). 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but buff of under parts 

 paler, that of the chest more or less obscured by pale brownish gray 

 tips to the feathers, the flanks also more or less strongly washed with 

 pale brownish gray; white of abdomen more extended, sometimes 

 involving nearly whole of breast; bill less yellow, the maxilla light 

 yellowish horn color, dusky on terminal portion of culmen; streaks 

 on throat grayer, usually narrower; length (skins), 213-250 (230); 

 wing, 124-136.5 (131.1); tail, 96.5-103 (99.1); exposed culmen, 21- 

 23.5 (22.5); tarsus, 30-32.5 (31.5); middle toe, 19.5-23 (21.3) .« 



Southern extremity of Lower California (Todos Santos; San Jose 

 del Cabo; Sierra de la Laguna; Mount Miraflores; Victoria Mount- 

 tains); accidental at Haywards, Alameda County, California (one 

 specimen, January 2, 1888). 



Turdus confinis Baird, Review Am. Birds, July, 1864, 29 (Todos Santos, near 

 Cape St. Lucus, Lower California; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus .). — Elliot, New and 

 Unfig. Birds N. Am., 1869, 3, pi.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 9.— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, pi. 2, fig. 1 — Seebohm, 

 Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., v. 1881, 222. 



[Turdus] c&njinis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 258, no. 3756.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 

 1903, 14a. 



T[vrdus] confinis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 244. 



[Turdus migrat onus.] Var. confinis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 72. 



Turdus migratorius . . . var. confinis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. la. 



Turdus migratorius, var. confinis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 27. 



Turdus migratorius confinis Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 3. 



Merula confinis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24. 1880, 166, 214; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 8; vi, 1883, 158 (Laguna, Lower California; descrip- 

 tions; crit.), 346 (crit.), 533, footnote (Todos Santos). — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 346 (Laguna, Lower California, above 2,500 ft.).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check J>ist, 1886, no. 762. — Emerson, 

 Zoe, i, 1890, 46 (Haywards, Alameda Co., California, 1 spec, Jan. 2, 1888).— 

 Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 2d ser., ii, 1889, 319 (Todos Santos; Vic- 

 toria Mts.); Zoe, ii, 1891, 198 (Victoria Mts.).— Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast 

 Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 74. — Brewster. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 

 216 (Sierra de la Laguna; habits; song). 



"Ten specimens. 



