2. TTJEDTTS. 199 



The S}-nonymy of the Eastern form is as follows : — 

 10. Turdus pallasi. 



Turdus pallasii, Cab* 



Tiirduri solitiiiiiis, If'ilson, Amer. Oni. v. p. 95, nee pi. xliii. fig. 2 



(181:?, iicc MM., nee Gmel.); Bp. Comp. ListB. Ear. Sf N. Amer. 



p. 17 (1838); Audub. B. Amer. iii. p. 29, pi. cxlvi. (1841); Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 219 (1847); Bp. Consp. i. p. 270 (1850). 

 Turdus minor, Gmel. apud Bp. Journ. ritil. Acad. iv. p. 33 (1824), 



apud Audub. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 303, pi. Iviii. (1831). 

 Merula solitaria {IFi/son), Stc. Faun. Bor.-Amer. Birds, ii. p. 184, 



pi. XXXV. (1831). 

 Turdus uauus, Audub. Orn. Biof/r. v. p. 201. pi. ccccxix. (1839) ; id. 



B. Amer. ill. p. 32, pi. cxlvii. (1841); Grai/, Gen. B.'i. p. 219 



(1847). 

 Turdus iruttatus (rail.), apud Cab. Tschudi's Faun. Per. p. 187 (1846). 

 Turdus pallasii. Cab. Arch, fiir Natury. 1847, p. 205 ; Homei/er, 



Rhea, 11. p. 147(1849); Cab. 3Ius. liein. i. y.b (\8o0); Gundlach, 



Journ. Orn. 1855, p. 470 ; Baird, Review, i. p. 14(1864); Gray, 



Hand-l.B.i. p. 254. no. 3684(1809); Coues, Kei/ X. Amer. B. 



p. 72 (1872); id. B. N. West, p. 2 (1874); Baird, Brewer, ^-Ridc/w. 



Hist X. Amer. B. i. p. 18 (L->74) ; Ilenshaw, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, 



p. 136 (1879); Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer. Zool., Ares, i. 



p. 13 (1879). 

 Turdus (HylocicLla) paUasi {Cab.), Coues, B. Col. Vail. p. 20 (1878). 



This form is said to differ from the preceding in having the general 

 colour of the \ipper parts slightly more rufous, and in having a 

 fulvous shade on the flanks ; but the distinction is based upon dif- 

 ferences of colour so slight as to he only perceptible to an educated 

 eye. It is, on an average, a smaller form. Length of wing 3*S5 

 to 3-30 inches, tail 2-8 to 2-4, culmen 07 to 0-62, tarsus 1-14: 

 to 1-05. 



The Eastern form of the Hermit Thrush is a migratory bird, 

 breeding from Boston northwards to about lat. 60°, and extending 

 westwards into the liocky-Monntains range. It winters in the 

 Eastern States from Boston to Elorida and in Cuba. 



* In consequence of Audubon ha\ing already described and figured this 

 bird as Turdus minor, Gmel., bis" name oi Turdus nanus, which \^as founded 

 upon a small example of the same species, has been so extensively misapplied 

 to the Western form of the Hermit Tlirusk that it is no longer available for 

 the Eastern form, and must be rejected in favour of Cabauis'suame, which is the 

 next in order of date. 



