ORDER PASSERES. 291 
Famity CINCLIDAi. Drrrpers. 
Genus CINCLUS BEeEcustTEIN. 
Cinclus Becust. Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl. 1802, 205. Type, 
Sturnus cinclus LINN. 
701. Cinclus mexicanus SwaiIns. 
American Dipper. 
Cinclus mexicanus Swans. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 368. 
[5 164,) Cro. RY ng,/G) 30. | 
Groc. Dist.— The mountainous parts of central and western 
North America, from the Yukon Valley and Unalaska to Guatemala’; 
east, in the United States, to the eastern base of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. Apparently resident throughout its range. 
Famity TROGLODYTIDZA. Wrens, THRASHERS, ETC. 
SUBFAMILY MIMIN ZG. THRASHERS. 
GENuS OROSCOPTES Bairrp. 
Oroscoptes BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 346. Type, Orpheus mon- 
tanus TOWNS. 
702. Oroscoptes montanus (Towns.). 
Sage Thrasher. 
Orpheus montanus ‘Towns. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII. 1837, 
193: \ 
Oroscoptes montanus BatRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 347. 
DS args al Oly Ail: ctor Qa Bel| 
Groc. Dist.— Western United States, from the western part of 
the Plains (western South Dakota, western Nebraska, and eastern 
Colorado), north to Montana, west to the Cascades and Sierra 
Nevada, south into northern Mexico, Lower California, and casually 
to Guadalupe Island. 
