312 AVES : PASSERES. — XLVI. 



cc. Tarsus not longer than middle toe with claw; nostrils partly concealed 

 by feathers in tlie nasal fossie; bill not notched; sexe.s unlike. 



IlKsrEKOlK IILA, 534. 



bb. Winps lon^' and pointed; (plumage partly blue). . . . Sialia, 535. 

 531. MYADESTES Swainson. (fivia, fly; «8fff7TJr, eater.) 



lOls. M. towusendi (Audubon). Fly-catchixg Thkush. 

 Townsend's Solitaire. Ashy <;ray, paler below; win<; bands 

 bully; tail blacki.sh; whitish rin<f about eye; youn<r with reddish 

 spots. L. 8. W. 4^. '!". 4^. Koeky Mountains and westward, 

 sirayin<ij E. to 111. {Xelsun.) A most excjuisite songster. (To 

 J. K. Townsend.) 



532. HYLOCICHLA Baird. (Gr., wood-thrush.) 



a. Wings never more than 3 J times tarsus; plain brownish above; spotted 

 below. Wood-thrushes. 

 b. Reddish color of back most distinct on head. 



1019. H. mustelina (Guielin). Wood Thrush. Cinnamon 

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

 breast with large, very distinet dusky spots. L. 8. W. 4^. T. 3. 

 E. U. S., in woodland ; our largest and handsomest wood thrush. 

 An exquisite songster. (Lat., weasel-colored.) 



bb. Reddish color of back equally distinct from head to tail. 



1020. H. fuscescens (Stephens). Veery. Tawny Thrush. 

 Wilson's Thrush. Uniform reddish l)rown above; breast and 

 throat washed with brownish or pinkish yellow, and marked with 

 small indistinct brownish spots. L. 7^. W. 4|. T. 3^. E. N. 

 Am., in damp woods, frecpient; a fine songster, superior to the 

 wood-thrush in its ranjre of notes. The Western variety, 111. to 

 Rocky Mts., var. salicicola Kidgway, is russet olive, the cheeks 

 paler, with broader markings. (Lat., dusky.) 



bbb. Back entirely olive, with no reddish shade anywhere, 

 c. Sides of head without buffy shades. 



1021. H. aliciae ( Baird). Gray-cheekeo Thrush. Very simi- 

 lar to the next, of which it may be a variety, but without buffy or 

 whitLsh ring about eye, or any buffy tint about head. E. X. Am., 

 r;in'.:in<jr more northerly. A smaller form, with slenderer bdl is var. 

 bicknelli Ridirway, in Catskills and X. (To Alice Keiinicott.) 



cc. Sides of head more or less shaded with buffy. 



102-2. H. uatulatua (Xuttall). Oi.iVE-nACKED TiiRfsii. Uni- 

 form olive above -. breast and throat thickly marked with large, 

 dusky olive spots ; breast antl sides of head strongly buffy-tinted ; a 

 conspicuous huffy orbital ring. L. 7^. W.4. T. 3. X^. Am. The 

 Western form (var. ustulata) is russet brown above, rather than 

 grayish olive as in the Eastern form, which is var. swainsoai C'a- 

 banis. (Lat., scorched.) 



