32 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
Smith-|Collee-| Sex He 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Received from Collected b 
No. No. | Age. Collected. y 
13,657 ie ac Xalapa. Soin Dr. P. L. Selater. | D’Oca. 
30,649 | 4,440 | .. Vera Paz, Guat. Bey O. Salvin. Salvin & Godman. 
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Turdus rufitorques. 
Turdus rufitorques, HARTLAUB, Rev. Zool. 1844, 214.—Scnater, P. Z. S. 
1859, 334; Ibis, II, 1860, 29; Catal. 1861, 6, no. 35. 
Hab. Guatemala; Duefias. 
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Smith- Collee- Sex 
sonian}| tor’s | and 
No. No. | Age. 
When 
Locality. Collected. Received from 
Collected by 
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O. Salvin. | af pln 
aaa) 41 | g | Duefias, Guat. | Aug. 3, 1859. 
Hesperocichla. 
Turdus nevius. 
Turdus nevius, Gu. 8. N. I, 1788, 817.—Scrater, P. Z. S. 1857, 4; 1859, 
331.—Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 219.—Cooper & Suckuey, P. R. 
Ret. Nee oO 72. 
Orpheus meruloides, Ricu. F. B. A. I, 1831, 187, pl. xxxviii. 
Other figures: Virritor, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, pl. lxvi.—Avp. Orn. 
Biog. IV, 1838, pl. 369, and 433.—Is. Birds Am. III, pl. 148. 
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 Orpheus merulotdes ; 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, Bairp. 
Platycichla, Barry, 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 
1 Platycichla brevipes, Bainp. The upper parts are greenish-olive, with an 
appearance of darker edges to the feathers of the head and back. The under 
