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value {Hylocichla)^ as suggested by Prof. Baird. (Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, page 4.) 



II. The Miming, or Mocking Thrushes, have the 

 tarsus scutellate (sometimes booted in Galeoscopies)^ the 

 first primary scarcely spurious; the rictal bristles better 

 developed, and the. tail relatively longer, in our species 

 lono-er than the win^-s. These birds have a brilliant and 

 varied song, but all of them are plainly clad. All are 

 American. 



III. Myiadestin^, the Fly-Catching Thrushes, have 

 been usually associated with the Ampelldm^ but their 

 ai^nities are rather with the thrushes, as Prof. Baird has 

 shown. All are American, — the single species within 

 our limits is a rare straggler from the West. 



* Tarsus booted; wiugs longer than tall. (Tukdin^:.) 



■f Breast spotted ; length 8i, or less. . . Hyi.ocichla, 1. 



•jf BrePtSt unspotted; (in ours) reddish or l)anded with black; 

 length 9i, or moi-e Titkdus, 2. 



** Tarsus scutellate in front (scutell a rarely obsolete); wings (in 

 ours) shorter tliau tail. { MiMiisr^.) 



X Bill about as long as head, sometimes much longer, straight 

 or curved, not notched. . . Methriopterus, 3. 



XX Bill much shorter than head, notched at tip. 



r«. Tarsus distinctly scutellate; ours ashy, with black and 

 white. MiMUS, 4. 



fflrt. Tarsus feebh'- scutellate; plumage lead-colored; crissum 

 chestnut-red Gat.eoscoptes, 5. 



*** Tarsus booted ; wings about equal to tail; bill short, much 

 depressed, notched and hooked ; color ashy. (MyrADESTiN.^:.) 



Myeadestes, 6. 



/. HYLOCICHLA, Baird. Wood Thrushes. 



< Tyrdi'jt^ Linn. 



1. H. mustelina, (Gm.) Bd. Wood Thrush. Cinnamon 

 brown, brightest on the head, shading into olive on the 



