abe AVES : PASSERES. — XLVI. 
cc. Tarsus not longer than middle toe with claw; nostrils partly concealed 
by feathers in the nasal fosse; bill not notched; sexes unlike. 
HESPEROCICHLA, 534. 
bb. Wings long and pointed; (plumage partly blue). . . . Srauta, 535. 
531. MYADESTES Swainson. (wvia, fly; édeorns, eater.) 
1018. M. townsendi (Audubon). FLiy-catcnuinc THrusn. 
TOWNSEND’s SOLITAIRE. Ashy gray, paler below; wing bands 
buffy ; tail blackish; whitish ring about eye; young with reddish 
spots. L. 8. W. 44. T. 44. Rocky Mountains and westward, 
straying EK. to Ul. (Nelson.) A most exquisite songster. (To 
J. K. Townsend.) 
532. TURDUS Linneus. (Lat., thrush.) 
a. Wings never more than 3} times tarsus; plain brownish above; spotted 
below. Wood-thrushes. (Hylocichla Baird.) 
6. Reddish color of back most distinct on head. 
1019. T. mustelinus Gmelin. Woop TuHrRusH. Cinnamon 
brown, brightest on the head, shading into olive on the rump; 
breast with large, very distinct dusky spots. L.8  W.44. T. 3. 
E. U. S., in woodland ; our largest and handsomest wood thrush. 
An exquisite songster. (Lat., weasel-colored.) 
66. Reddish color of back equally distinct from head to tail. 
1020. T. fuscescens Stephens. VEERY. Tawny THRUSH. 
Witson’s TurusH. Uniform reddish brown above; breast and 
throat washed with brownish or pinkish yellow, and marked with 
small indistinct brownish spots. L. 74. W. 44. T. 34. E.N. 
Am., in damp woods, frequent; a fine songster, superior to the 
wood-thrush in its range of notes. The Western variety, Ill. to 
Rocky Mts., var. salicicolus Ridgway, is russet olive, the cheeks 
paler, with broader markings. (Lat., dusky.) 
6bb. Back entirely olive, with no reddish shade anywhere. 
c. Sides of head without buffy shades. 
1021. T.alicize Baird. GRAY-CHEEKED TurusuH. Very similar 
to the next, of which it may be a variety, but without buffy or 
whitish ring about eye, or any buffy tint about head. E. N. Am., 
ranging more northerly. A smaller form, with slenderer bill is var. 
bicknelli Ridgway, in Catskills and N. (To Alice Kennicott.) 
cc. Sides of head more or less shaded with buffy. 
1022. T. ustulatus Nuttall. OLIVE-BACKED THRusH. Uniform 
olive above ; breast and throat thickly marked with large, dusky 
olive spots; breast and sides of head strongly buffy-tinted; a con- 
spicuous buffy orbital ring. L. 74. W.4. T.3. N.Am. The 
Western form (var. ustulatus) is russet brown above, rather than 
grayish olive as in the Eastern form, which is var. swainsoni Ca- 
banis. (Lat., scorched.) 
