PASSERES— TUEDIDAE— GALEOSCOPTES CAliOLINENSIS. 



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Mimns candatns (canadatus error), Bd., B. N. A., 1858, 345. — Xantus, Proc. Acail. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 101 (Fort Tejoii, Cal.).— Cooper, Proc. Oal. Acad., 

 1870, 75.— Yarrow, Kep. Orn. Spec, 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 34.— 

 Yarrow & Hekshaw, Eep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 0. 



Gakoscoptes caroKnensis, Be, Eev. Am. Birds, i, 1864, 54. — Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., 1870, 404.- Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 670.— Henshaw, 

 Eep. Oiii. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 56-71.— Id., Au. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874.— If/., Au. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 40. 



The well-known Catbird in its extensive range inhabits nearly all 

 portions of the West, and in many parts of Utah its familiar notes may be 

 heard coming from the shnibbery on the outskirts of the towns or even 

 from the gardens ; for its seems to court the presence of man here with the 

 same Assiduity as in the East. Indeed, its range seems more or less 

 dependent upon the advance of civilization ; for in Colorado I never noticed 

 it save in the immediate neighborhood of some settlement, and in New 

 Mexico and Arizona it appears not to occur at all, or, if so, it must be very 

 rarely, for none of our parties have ever detected it, nor do I find it men- 

 tioned elsewhere from this region. At Fort Garland, Southern Colorado, a 

 few pairs were found established in the thickets of the streams, and several 

 nests, built in low bushes and containing freshly laid eggs, were taken 

 about the middle of June. Their habits and notes seem but the counter- 

 part of those at the East, and are too well known to need description here. 



