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North American Birds. 



1. Turdus migratorius L. b 155. c i. r 7. 



Robin. 



2. Turdus migratorius propinquus Ridg. b — . c — . R la. (?) 



Rocky Mountain Robin. 



3. Turdus migratorius confinis (Bd.) Coues. b — . c la. R 8. 



St. Lucas Robin. 



4. Turdus iliacus L. b — . c — . R 6. (G. !e.) 



Redwing. 



y 5. Turdus nsevius Gm. b 156. c 2. r 9. 



Varied Tlirush. 



6. Turdus mustelinus Gm. b us. c 3. r 1. 



/ Wood Tlirush. 



1. Tur'-dus mi-gra-to'-rl-us. Lat. ^urc/us, a thrush. Lat. /n/r/ro, to move from one place to 



another ; migrator, a wanderer, a migrant ; migratorius, migrator}'. 



2. T. m. pr5-pin'-quias [propeenkwoocej. hut. propinquus, near, neighboring ; as related to 



T. migratorius. 



3. T. m. con-fi'-nis [confeenis]. Lat. confinis, subs, or adj., a neighbor, neighboring; here 



in sense of closely related to T. migratorius. 



4. T. il-I'-a-cus. Lat. iliacus, relating to the ilia, or haunches ; also, Lat. Iliacus, Gr. 'IKiukSs, 



relating to Troy, Trojan ; application obvious in neitlier case. But Aristotle gives a 

 kind of thrush, called l\ids, supposed by old ornithologists, as Gesner and Belon, to be 

 this species, said to be called by the modern Greeks Iwds, rv\ds, kIx^^v i><'ds, or /f(x^<* 

 l\idSa; and the actual form, Turdus iliacus, was an old name when Linnaeus adopted it. 



5. T. nae'-vl-us [nayveus]. Lat. navius, spotted, from mrvus, a mole (birth-mark). — The 



sub-genus Hesperocichla is Gr. ea-n-fpos, Lat. vesperus, evening, i.e., western, and Kixf^o- or 

 xlx^n, a thrush. 



6. T. miis-te-li'-nias. Lat. mustflinus, weasel-like; i.e., in this case, tawny. — The sub-genus 



Hjjlocichla is Gr. vKt), a wood, and /cfx^.«' 



