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Colorado); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 148 (Denver and Fort Gar- 

 land Colorado, breeding). -Williams, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 62 

 (Belt Mts Montana, breeding). -Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 328 (w. Manitoba; 

 abundant summer res.). -Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 633 

 (Manitoba, summer res.). 

 [Turdr,s] fuscescens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 73, part.-ScLATER and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 1, part. 

 Turdus (nylocichla) fuscescens Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 39, part. 

 Hylocichlafiisccscens Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 2, part. -(?) Agers- 



BORG, Auk, ii, 1885, 277 (s. e. South Dakota, summer res.). 

 Turdus {Ilylocidila) swainsoni (not Turdus swainsonii Cabanis) Coues, Bull. U. S. 

 Geol and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, no. 3, 1878, 550 (Souris R., Dakota, Sept.). 

 , Hylocichla fuscescens salidcola Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, Apr. 6, 1882, 

 374 (Fort Garland, Colorado; coU. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vii,* 1882, 257.— Coale, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 239 (Chicago, 

 Illinois, Sept. 16, 1877).— Reichenow and Schalow, Joum. fiir Orn., 1884, 

 432 (reprint of orig. descr.).— American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xvi, 1899, 127.— Howe, Auk, xvii, 1900, 19 (range).— Allison, Auk, 

 xvii,' 1900, 297 (Amite Co., Mississippi, spec, Sept. 18, 1897).— Preble, 

 North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 129 (between Winnipeg and Selkirk, Mani- 

 toba).-BAiLEY (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 469. 

 H[ylocic}ila]f[uscescens] salidcola Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 254. 

 [Hylocichla] salidcola Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 142. 

 T[urdus] f[uscescens ]salicicola Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 246. 

 Turdus fuscescens salidcolus American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886 no. 756a.— Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 167 (Tuscon, Arizona, 1 spec. May, 

 1882) —Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 284 (Devil's Lake and Pembina, 

 Dakota- Cook Co., Texas). -Loomis, Auk, vi, 1889, 194 (Chester, South 

 Carolina, 1 spec, Oct. 5, 1888); viii, 1891, 173 (do.). -Ridgway, Orn. Hlmois, 

 i 1889 55 —Williams, Auk. vii, 1890. 292, 293 (Montana; habitat; song).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 154 (Ducks and Ashcroft, mt. 

 British Columbia, breeding; Sassin, Washington, breeding).— Allen, Bull. 

 Am Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 340 (Chapada, Matto Grosso, s. w. Brazil, 1 spec, 

 Mar. 27).— Gault, Auk, xii, 1895, 85 (Glen EUyn, n. e. Illinois, May 6 and 

 21, Aug. 29, and Sept. 1, 6, 8, 1894).— Butler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 1150 

 (Liverpool, n. w. Indiana, 2 specs.. May 5, 1894). 

 T[urdus]fuscesccns salidcolus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 574. 

 T\urdus^f\usccscens'\ salidcolus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 246. 

 Turdus fuscescens salidcola Merrill (J. C), Auk, xv, 1898, 21 (Fort Sherman, 

 Idaho, breeding).— SiLLO WAY, Bull. Univ. Mont., no. 3, Biol. ser. no. 1, 

 1901, 73 (Flathead Lake, Montana, breeding). 



Genus ZELEDONIA Ridgway. 



Zekdonia Ridgavay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, sig. 34, Sept. 20, 1889, 537. (Type, 

 Z. coronata Ridgway.) 

 Very small, long-legged, short-tailed, rounded-winged Turdid8e(?) 

 with tail consisting of only ten rectrices and not longer than tarsus 

 and basal phalanx of middle toe (between one-half and tlu-ee-fifths 

 as long as wing, the latter very little more than twice as long as tarsus) , 

 outermost (tenth) primary very minute (shorter than primary coverts) , 

 the ninth two-thirds as long as eighth, and with an orange-rufous 

 crown-patch. 



