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on back, the head and tail blackish; eyelids white. 

 Below reddish brown; throat white, streaked 

 with black; belly and under tail-coverts white. 

 Female and winter male with colors more dingy, 

 the back more brownish in tone and the breast 

 paler. Young spotted above and below. A 

 summer resident o'i the mountains and redwood 

 region, wintering in the valleys. 



202. Varied Thrush; Varied Robin; Hespero- 

 cichla navia (Gmel.). 



Length nine and a half inches. Upper parts dark 

 slaty; head and tail blackish brown. Under 

 parts orange brown, changing to white on the 

 belly. A black crescent on breast; a broad 

 black line bordering throat below eye and an 

 orange brown line above it, back of eye. Three 

 orange brown bars cross the wings. Female 

 with back tinged with brownish and the breast 

 crescent pale dusky. A winter visitant migrat- 

 ing along the mountains into the valleys where 

 it is shy and seldom seen. 



203. Western Bluebird; Alalia mexicana occiden- 

 talis (Towns.). 



The western representative of the bluebird, but a 

 distinct species. Length seven inches. Male, 

 above brilhant glossy blue, broken on middle of 

 back by a chestnut patch. Throat like back ; 

 breast chestnut, extending down on sides, leav- 

 ing the belly white, tinged with bluish or grayish. 

 Female much duller, the blue of the back changed 

 to grayish, except on rump and tail, and the 

 chestnut of breast to bufFy. The young have 



