GALEOSCOPTES CAROLTNENSIS— OREOSCOPTES MONTANUS. 399 

 Galeoscoptes CAROLINENSIS. 



Cat-bird. 



Mtiscicapa earolinensis, Linn, S. N., I, 176G, 328. 



Mimus earolinensis, IUird, B. N. Aiu., 1858, 34G ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 254.— 



Cooper, Orii. Cal., I, 23.— Coues, Key, 1872, 74; Check Li.st, 1873, No. 9; 



B. N.W., 1874, 8. 

 Galeoseoptes earolinensis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein., 1, 1850, 82. — Baibd, Review, 18G4, 



54; B. B. & R.; I, 1874, 52, pi. ill, fig. 5.— Henshaw, 1875, 152. 



Like many species considered to be characteristically eastern, the Cat- 

 bird is likewise one of the most abundant summer residents of the Wahsatch 

 region. Indeed, we found it not uncommon on the large islands in the Great 

 Salt Lake, specimens being shot in an orchard on Antelope Island in the 

 month of June, while another was obtained, during the same month, on 

 Stansbury Island, where few other birds were found. Among the mountains 

 it was more abundant, its favorite haunts being the shady thickets along 

 the streams which descend the canons or course across the meadow-like 

 "parks." It was thus an associate of the Olive-backed Thrush and the 

 Redstart (Setophaja ruticilla), but Avhile it did not ascend to as high an alti- 

 tude as the former, we found the latter with it only in the lower portions of 

 its range. No differences from the eastern birds of the same species were 

 detected, in either manners or notes. 



List of specimens. 



1105, S ad.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah, June 4, 18C9. (Too badly 

 mutilated for measurement.) 



11G3, 9 ad.; Stansbury Island, Great Salt Lake, June 12. 8g — 11. Bill and feet, 

 black; iris, brown. 



12G3, 12G4, nests; Parley's Park (Wahsatch Mountains), Utah, June 23. Nest in 

 willows along stream. 



1323, nest and eggs (2); Parley's Park, June 28. Nest in willows. 



1384, nest and eggs (4) ; Provo River, Utah, July 10, 1869. Nest in willow-thicket. 



Oreoscoptes MONTANUS. 



Sas:c Tliraslier; ^lountain ITIockiiiK-l>ii*(l. 



Orpheus nwntanus, Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci., I'liilail., 1837, 192. 



Oreoscoptes montanus, Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 347; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 255; 

 Review, 1SG4, 42.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 12.— CouES, Key, 1872, 74 ; Check List, 

 1873, No. 7; B. N.W., 1874, 7.— B. B. & R., I, 1874, 32, pi. IH, tig. G.— ilEN- 

 SHAW, 1875, 149. 



Before beginning our account of this interesting species, we pause to 



