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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Turdtis rufitorques. 



Tiirdus rufitorques, HARTLA0B, Rev. Zool. 1844, 214. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1859, 334; Ibis, II, 1860, 29 ; Catal. 1861, 6, no. 35. 

 Hab. Guatemala ; Duenas. 



Hesperocichla. 

 Turdiis naeTiiis. 



Turdus nsEvius, Gm. S. N. 1, 1788, 817.— Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857,4; 1859, 

 331.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 219.— Cooper & Suckley, P. R. 

 R. R. XII, II, 1859, 172. 



Orpheus meruloides, Ricn. F. B. A. II, 1831, 187, pi. xxxviii. 



Other figures : Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, pi. Ixvi. — Aud. Om. 

 Biog. IV, 1838, pi. 369, and 433.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, pl. 143. 



This species is not recorded as found elsewhere than on the north- 

 west coast of America, from California northward to Russian America. 

 Richardson obtained a single specimen on Great Bear Lake, described 

 as (jrpheus meruloides ; and Mr. Kennicott found another in the 

 Rocky Mts., on Porcupine River (No. 27,221, August 28, 1861, col- 

 lector's number 1,612). 



It is proper to state that the specimen collected by Mr. Kennicott 

 (of which only the head and wing were preserved) exhibits a decided 

 notch in the bill. Nothing approximating to this character, how- 

 ever, could be discerned in over fifty other specimens examined ; in 

 all of which, if any indication of notch existed, it was of the most 

 obsolete character, and was, in most instances, not to be found at all. 



PLATYCICHLA, Baird. 

 Plafijcichla, Baird, n. g. (Type P. brevipes.') 

 Among the South American Thrushes in the Museum of the 

 Smithsonian Institution is one (No. 23,954) for which I am unable 



' riatycichla brcvipes, Baikd. The upper parts are greenish-olive, with an 

 appearance of darker edges to the feathers of the head and back. The under 



