142 Grinnell, Two Races of the Varied Tkriisk. [.April 



ured one inch in diameter at this point. Just clear of the nest 

 on the lower side a twig one half an inch in diameter slopes away 

 from the nest but does not support it in any way. The end of 

 the branch was broken off, as often occurs with the tulip tree, 

 and the nest was placed near this end, 15 feet out from the tree 

 and 48 feet 6 inches up from ground. There was but one branch 

 growing lower on this tree and it was on the other side, so that 

 there was a clear space between the nest and the ground. The 

 nest would answer in every particular for the original of the one 

 described on page 360 of the October, 1900, number of 'The 

 Auk,' collected in western Ontario by Mr. W. E. Saunders, whose 

 brother was with me when I first identified this species. 



TWO RACES OF THE VARIED THRUSH. 



BY JOSEPH GRINNELL. 



Hesperocichla naevia naevia {Gtne/in) Ridgway. 



Turdus ii-Evius Gmelin, Systema Naturae, Tom. I, 1788, p. 817. 



Hesperocichla ncBZ'ia Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. Ill, 1S80, 

 p. 166. 



Type, ? ad.. No. 1222, coll. J. G., Sitka, Alaska, July 2, 1896; collected 

 by J. Grinnell. 



Description — Back, scapulars and rump bistre ; upper tail-coverts 

 brightening into vandyke brown ; upper surface of tail dark Prout's 

 brown; top of head and cervix dark mummy brown abruptly outlined 

 posteriorly against the color of back. Dark parts of outer surface of 

 closed wing seal brown ; tips of greater and middle wing-coverts, and 

 spot composed of outer webs of primaries near their base, tawny ochrace- 

 ous ; edging of outer webs of terminal third of primaries and secondaries 

 hazel. Foreneck tawny, brightest laterally on malar region; lores and 

 auriculars same as top of head, perhaps slightly grayish ; feathers of auric- 

 ulars with narrow ochraceous shaft-streaks ; longitudinal stripe from above 

 eye along upper margin of auriculars, and spot on low'er eyelid ochraceous ; 

 complete pectoral band raw umber; remainder of under parts poste- 

 rior from pectoral band tawny ochraceous ; feathers of sides with 

 crescent-shaped tips of light sepia; flanks nearly uniform light sepia with 

 a perceptible raw umber tinge ; middle of belly white with a faint buffy 



