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NOTES ON EUROPEAN THRUSHES. 



wiug iu T. alpestris ; I also believe that it is lighter underneath, judg- 

 ing from Dresser's description. As to the locality of the specimen 

 in question, there is reason to believe that it was collected at the same 

 place as the adult female described above, and that it hails from some 

 place in Upper Bavaria. 



I append the following list of specimens examined by me and their 

 measurements. It will be seen that there is practically no difference in 

 size between the two species : 



Measurements of TuRDUS alpestkis. 





Collector and 

 number. 



Locality. 



Date. 



-a a 



Keuiarks. 



106458 

 108891 



9662 



56308 



108892 



9661 



W. Pearce . . 



Schliiter 



V. Miiller . . . 

 Schliker, 349 

 Schliiter . . 

 V. Miiller . . . 



cT ad.. Sweet Water-s Turkey Aug. 8,1877 

 cT ad . - 1 Karpathian Mountains] May 21, 1884 



9 ad. -I "Europe" June 7, 



J' jon Galicia 



Jun . . . Karpathian Mountains 

 cf juv. "Europe" 



mm., mm. mm,. 



May 17, 1884 

 July 3,1836 



142 110 



139 I 107 



133 



135 



140 



126 



18 

 18.5 

 99 i 18 



102 

 108 

 83 



Tellow bill. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Dusky bill. 

 Yellowish bill. 

 Dusky bill. 



Measuremc»is of Turdus torquatus. 



77766 

 98003 

 18944 

 69969 

 18584 

 56307 



Giitke 



Drouet 



S. Burchard. 



Schliiter, 346 



d ad. Heligoland Apr. —, 1878 



rf ad. I Bergen, Norway \ Nov. 20, 1881 



d ad. j France 



cf ad. Rostock, Germany. 



$ ad. j Denmark 



d jun I Silesia, Germany. . . 



19 Tellow bill. 



Dusky bill. 



Do. 

 Tellow biU. 



Do. 

 Dusky bill. 



For the sake of completeness I add the following synonymy of 



Tardus torquatus Lixx. 



IToS.—Turdns torquatus LiNX., S. N., 10 ed., I, p. 170. Id., S. N., 12 ed., I, p. 296. 

 18:51. — Merula moittana Brehm, Haiidb. Vog. Deutscbl., p. 375. 

 1831. — Merula coUaris Brehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl., p. 376. 



Naumanx, Natnrg. Vog. Deutschl., ii, pi. 70. — Dresser, Birds of Europe, ii, pi. 14 

 and pi. 1.5, fig. dextra. 



Smithsonian Institution, March 31, 1886. 



Note. — Since the above was written I have received from Mr. W. 

 Schiiter two more King-Thrushes which fully bear out the foregoing 

 conclusions. 1 wrote to him to send me two Turdus torquatus from the 

 Karpathian Mountains, and received two T. alpestris! They are now 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Nos. 108891 and 108892, and their dimensions have 

 already been interpolated in the table above. 



The (ir.st-mentioned specimeirisan adult male, collected May 31, 1884. 

 The bill is yello^\ and the collar white. The plumage is fresher in color 



