TURDUS N^VIUS : VARIED THRUSH. 53 



VARIED THRUSH. 

 TuRDUs N^vius Gin. 



Chars. " Above, rather dark bluish slate ; under parts generally, 

 a patch on the upper eyelids continuous with a stripe behind it 

 along the side of the head and neck, the lower eyelid, two bands 

 across the wing-coverts and the edges of the quills, in part, rufous 

 orange brown ; middle of the belly white. Sides of head and 

 neck, continuous with a broad pectoral transverse band, black. 

 Most of the tail-feathers with a terminal patch of brownish white. 

 Bill black. Feet yellow. Female more olivaceous above, the 

 white of the abdomen more extended, the brown beneath paler ; 

 the pectoral band obsolete. Length, 9.75 ; extent, 15.00 ; wing, 

 3.90; tail, 1.25." — (Baird.) 



The Oregon Robin, or Varied Thrush, is only a 

 straggler from the Pacific slopes. There is but one 

 authentic instance 

 of its occurrence 

 in New England. 

 A single individ- 

 ual was 

 taken at 

 Ipswich, 

 Mass., in 

 D ec em- 

 ber, 1864. 



(See Coucs., Pr. Es- 

 sex Inst., V, 1868, p. 

 312; Allen, Am. Nat., 

 iii, 1869, p. 572 ; May- 

 nard, Nat. Guide, 



1870, p. 89 ; Brewer, P'"- ^-^^'^ °^ Varied Thrush. (Nat. size.) 



Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, p. 438; Allen, Bull. Essex 



