SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES — OSCINES. 



light aud dark brown. Throat yellowish -white, streaked with brownish-black ; breast and 

 belly grayish-white ; lower tail-coverts whitish, streaked with brown. Sides aud under wiuy- 

 coverts light reddish. Bill brownish-black ; basal half of lower mandible orange-yellow ; iris 

 brown; feet flesh-colored. Sexes alike. Length 8.50 ; extent 14.00; wing 4.50 ; tail ;3.25 ; 

 bill 0.75; tarsus, or middle toe and claw, 1.15. European; only N. American as occurring 

 accidentally in Greenland. 



HYLOCICH'LA. (Gr. v'Xr], hide, woods, forest; (ci'x'^a, lichla, a thrush.) American 



Wood Thrushes. 

 Chiefly distinguished 

 from Turdus proper 

 by length and slen- 

 derness of tarsus, 

 which is more than :|- 

 as long as wing, and 

 longer than middle 

 toe and claw. Bill 

 comparatively weak, 

 small, depressed and 

 broad at base. Spe- 

 cies of small size, and 

 not robust form ; 

 sexes similar; adults 

 not spotted or 

 streaked above, but 

 spotted or streaked 

 below on a white or 

 whitish Of r o u n d ; 

 young with whitish 

 or bufi" markings on 

 upper parts. A 

 beautiful genus of 

 woodland vocalists, 

 included under Tur- 

 dus in former eds. of 

 the Key and A. 0. U. 

 Lists. Hi/locichla 

 Bd., Rev. Am. B., i, 

 1864, p. 12, type 

 mustelinus, the well- 

 known Wood Thrush, besides which the genus contains the Veery, the Hermit, the Olive- 

 back, the Gray-cheek, and their several subspecies, as follows : 



Wood Thrush. 



Analysis of Species and Subspecies. 



Upper parts not of one color from head to tail. Eggs not spotted. 



Upper parts tawny, shading to olive on rump. Wood Thrush. (Eastern.) mustelina 



Upper parts olive, shading to rufous on rump. Hermit Thrushes. 



Of medium size. (Eastern.) aonnUii-rhka pallasi 



Of largest size. Rocky Mts aoiuilasc/ikir audubtmi 



Of smallest size. Pacific coast aunalaschkw 



Upper parts of one color throughout. 

 Eggs not spotted. 



