10 SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



A single specimen of tliis liinl was obtained (No. 23,789 of the Smith- 

 sonian collection) at Todos Santos, Cape St. Lucas, in 1860, liy IMr. John 

 Xantus, who has done so much to extend our knowledge of the zoJilogy of 

 both Upper and Lower California. It has a close resemblance to the com- 

 mon Eoliin, and may indeed be a local variety of it ; but, differing appreciably 

 from hundreds of specimens of the latter with wliich it has been compared, 



it merits recognition at least as a strongly marked form. It is much lighter 

 than the Eobin, tlic dark chestnut or cinnamon of tlie latter being replaced 

 by light Ijutr, and the belly and Hanks are mucli more purely white. The 

 superciliary strijje extends fartlier behind the eye, and tlie bill appears to be 

 longer. There is no Idack or dusky on the head as in the Eobin. It was 

 obtained in the summer season, and was probably a resident liird. (Baikd.) 



TurdiTS naevius, Cmelin. 



THE VARIED THEUSH. WESTERN EOBIN. 



Tiirdus nwviits, Gmf.lin, Syst. N;it. I. 1788, 817. — Arounox, Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 489; V. 

 1839, 284; pi. 369, 4.33. — In. Birds Amcr. III. 1841, 22; pi. 143. — Cabot, Jour. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H. III. 1848, 17 (spec, shot near Boston). — Lawrence, Annals N. Y. 

 Lye. v. June, 18.52, 221 {.spec, shot near New York). — Newberry, Zool. Cal. and 

 Or. Route, 81 ; Kep. 1'. R. R. Swrv. VI. iv. 1857. — Heerjiaxn, X. vi. 4.5. — Cooi-er 

 and Si-CKi.KV, XII. iii. Zool. of W T. 172. — T. {Iroreus) mrr/i/.f, Bosap., Notes Orn. 

 Dclattre, in Comptes Rendus, XXVIII. 18.54, 269.— B.viRD, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 

 219. —In. Rev. Anicr. Birds, 32. — Lord, I'r. R. Art. Inst. Woolwich, 114. 



Orpheus inrriiloides, Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 1831, 187 ; pi. 38. 



Sp. Cii.\I!. Fourth quill lonf;cst ; tliinl ami lil'th a little shorter; second much longer 

 than sixth. Tail nearly even ; the latei-al feather shoi-ter. Above rather <lark bluish 

 slate ; under jiarts <jenerally, a patch on the up])er eyelids conthiuons with a stripe behind 

 if along the side of the head ami neek.the lower ovelids. two bands across the wing coverts 

 and the edges of the (juills, in part, rufous orange-brown ; middle of belly, white. Sides of 



