BIRDS OF KANSAS. 643 



Subfamily TURDIN^. Thrushes. 



Gonys more thau one-third as loug as commissure, the bill more slender and 

 compressed. {Ridgway.) 



Genus TURDUS Linx.eus. 



"Bill conical, subulate, shorter than the head: the tip gently decurved and 

 (except in Hesperocichla) the rictus with moderate bristles; the wings rather long 

 and pointed, with small first primary (less than one-fourth the second); wings 

 considerably longer than the tail, which is firm, nearly even, with broad feathers. 

 Tarsi variable, seldom as long as the skull, the scutella fused into a continuous 

 plate, only in rare individual instances showing Indications of the lines of sep- 

 aration." 



Subgenus HYLOCICHLA Baied. 



"Smallest species. Bill short, broad at base; much depressed. Tarsi long 

 and slender, longer than middle toe and claw by the additional length of the 

 claw; outstretched legs reaching nearly to tip of tail. Body slender. Color: 

 Above, olivaceous or reddish; beneath, whitish; breast spotted; throat without 

 spots." 



Tardus mustelinus Gmel. , 



WOOD THRUSH. 

 PLATE XXXV. 



Summer resident; abundant in the eastern part of tlie State; 

 rare in the western portion. Arrive the middle of April to the 

 first of May; begin laying about the middle of May; the bulk 

 leave in September; a few linger late into October. 



B. 148. K. 1. C. 6. G. 1, 327. U. 755. 

 Habitat. Eastern United States; north to Massachusetts, On- 

 tario, Wisconsin and eastern- Dakota; west to the Great Plains; 

 south in winter to Cuba and Guatemala. 



Sp. Char. Above, bright tawny cinnamon brown, more rufescent anteriorly, 

 more grayish posteriorly; auriculars streaked white and dusky. Lower parts 

 white, the breast and sides with large blackish spots. Adult, in summer: Above, 

 cinnamon brown, becoming bright tawny rufous on the head, the color clearer 

 and somewhat lighter on the cervix; wings less reddish than the back; rump 

 still more olivaceous, and tail decidedly grayish brown. A pure white orbital 

 ring; lores grayish white, more gray immediately in front of the eye; auriculars 

 dusky, distinctly streaked with whitish. A white malar stripe, curving upward 

 beneath the auriculars, the anterior portion speckled with dusky. Entire lower 

 parts white, usually somewhat tinged with buff on the breast; sides of throat 

 bounded by a stripe of aggregated blackish cuneate streaks; jugulura marked 

 with distinct cuneate or deltoid; the breast and sides with larger, broader, in- 

 versely cordate spots of black; abdomen and crissum immaculate; throat with 

 very few minute spots, or entirely immaculate. Adult, in icinter: Similar, but 



