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b. Ixoreus nevius meruloides (Swainson). Northern Varied Thrush. (763a.] 
Orpheus meruloides Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., IT, 1831 (1832), 187, 
pl. 38. (Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie.) 
Rance.— Western North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper 
Canadian zones from the Yukon Delta, Kowak Valley, and Mackenzie Delta 
south to Prince William Sound, Alaska, and southern part of Mackenzie Valley, 
and south in mountains through eastern British Columbia to northwestern 
Montana and northeastern Oregon; winters mainly in the interior of Cali- 
fornia south to Los Angeles County. 
[Genus CYANOSYLVIA Breum. 
Cyano-sylvia BreuM, Isis, X XI, 1828, 920. Type, by monotypy, Mota- 
cilla suecica LINN&US. 
Cyanosylvia suécica (LINN&XUs). 
Rance.— Northern parts of Europe and Asia. Breeds within the 
Arctic Circle from the Scandinavian Peninsula to Siberia and south- 
ward in the higher parts of central Asia; winters in Abyssinia and 
southern Asia; casual in western Alaska. 
a. ([Cyanosylvia suecica suecica. Extralimital.] 
b. Cyanosylvia suecica robista (BururRLIN). Siberian Red-spotted Blue- 
throat. [764.] 
Cyanecula suecica robusta Buturuin, Orn. Monatsber., XV, 1907, 79. 
(Kolyma Delta, Siberia.) 
RancGe.— Siberia, breeding from the Tunguska Valley eastward, and south 
to China in winter; casual in western Alaska.] 
GENUS SAXICOLA BEcHSTEIN. 
Sazicola Becustein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., I, 1802, 216. Type, 
by subs. desig., Motacilla enanthe LINN&us (Gray, 1841). 
Saxicola cndnthe (LINN&Uus). 
RancE.— Northern Europe and Asia, Alaska, Greenland, and 
northeastern Arctic America; south in winter to Africa and southern 
Asia. 
