(t» uiitns or ILLINOIS. 



Ptilo<ii»i;ig. Its true relntionship, however, is decidedly witli the 

 Turdidie, to which its hooted tarsi, its haLits, the spotted plumajju 

 of its younj;, and many otlier characters ally it clu.sc-ly. 

 The ouly North American geuus is the following: 



Genos MYADESTES Swainson. 



ituadeslea Bwaikson. Jard. Nat. Library, xlll., Flycatchers, "1838." 1S2. Type. .V. 

 gfniharhis 8w, 



"Gen. Chab. Occipital reatliers full and soft PlamaKO rather loose. IJlll weak, 

 mnch depressed. Commlssuro neiirly straicht. Hind toe loricer than inner liUural. TofS 

 deeply cleft. Closed wlnis externally with an exposed lieht baml across the base of tlie 

 Quills, and another nearer the end, separated by a darker one. Toil somewhat ^aduatod 

 on the sides. 



"Of the ten or more described species of the genus, only one be- 

 longs to the limits of the United States, although several others oc- 

 cupy adjacent territory in Mexico. Several are pecuUar to islands 

 of the West Indies." (Hist. N. Am. B.) 



Myadestes townscndi (.Vud.) 



TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIHE. 



Popular synonyms.— Townsend's Flycatcher, or Flycatchlng Thrush; Townsond's. 

 PtlloKonys. 



Ptilogoni/s loinifendi AuD. Orn. Biosr. v, 1819. 200, pi. 419, lie. 2; Synop. 1839, 46; B. Am. 1. 

 1840, 243, pi. CO.— NOTT. Man. 2d ed. t, 18«0,361. 



Myadestes (oioi.'Jenc/ii Caban. Wleprm. Archlv. 1847. 1., 208.— BArRD, B.N.Am. 1858, 321: 

 Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 2.'io; Uoviow. IsiW, 429.-CouEs, Key, is?-', 117; Chock List. 

 1873. No. 121; 2d od. 1882, No. ItW; B. N. W. 1874. 93; B. Col. Val. lh7C, 44.-B. B. & K 

 Hist. N. Am. B. I. 1874. 106. pi. 18. tigs. 3,4.— BiDOW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881. No. 25. 



Hab. Western Mountain districts of the United States, from the Me.xIcan boundary to 

 British Columbia. (Accidental straKirler to northern Illinois.) 



"Sp. Chab. Tall rather deeply forked. Exposed portion of spurious quill less than 

 one third that of the second: fourth 'lulll lonsest: second u little lonuer than thosLxlh. 

 Head not oroslod. Qenonil color brownish ash, paler beneath: under winc-coverts white. 

 Quills with u brownish yellow bar at the base of both webs, mostly concealed, but show- 

 InK a little below the Kreater coverts and uluijc: this succeeded by a bar ofdu^ky, and 

 next to it another of brownish yellow across the outer webs of the central cmills only. 

 Tertials tipped with white. Tail feathers dark brown: the middle ones more like the 

 back; the lateral with the outer web and tip, the second with the tip only, white. A white 

 rlnc round the eye. Length, 8 inohes; wing. l.-IO; tall, ;'.S5. (8.2:14.) 



"Young birds have a large triangular pale-ocliraceous light spot 

 on the end of each feather (rather paler below), bounded externally 

 by a narrow border of blackish; the quill and tail feathers as in 

 adult." {Hist. N. Am. B.) 



