190 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 
A History of North American Birds, by S. F. ‘Baird, T. M. Brewer, and 
R. Ridgway, Land Birds, in 3 vols., small 4to. Boston, 1874. 
Birds of Western and Northwestern Mexico, from Collections of Col. A. J. 
Grayson, Capt. J. Xantus, and F. Bischoff. By G.N. Lawrence. From 
Memoirs of the Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1874. 4to. 
Birds of the Northwest (the region of the Missouri R.) By E. Coues, 
M.D., U.S. A. Washington, 1874. 8vo. 
Report on Ornithological Specimens collected in the Years 1871, 1872, and 
1873, in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. By Dr. H.C. Yarrow, H. W. Hen- 
shaw, and F. Bischoff. Washington, 1874. 8vo. 
For convenience of reference, I give the pages of Ornithology of Califor- 
nia, Vol. I, where the species are described. 
Turpus nanus—The Dwarf Thrush, page 4. The notes given by me in the 
lower five lines of this page belong properly to the next species, as it is 
scarcely probable that any of this remain in the lower country of California, 
or even in the mountains in summer, unless above an elevation of 8,000 ft., as 
does its Rocky Mountain representative, var. Auduboni Baird. The song 
of that, and of the eastern race, var. ‘‘ Pallassi’’ Cab., being described as 
resembling that of the Wood Thrush (7. mustelinus), with which I am fa- 
miliar, Iam sure that I never heard it in the Sierra Nevada up to 8,000 ft. 
alt., nor in the forests of Washington Territory, and that of var. nanus can- 
not be very different.* 
It is the winter thrush of California, common from September to May. 
As pointed out by me in the Amer. Naturalist, Jan. 1875, the name nanus 
has priority over Pallassi, but that of guttatus Pallas, 1811, will very probably 
become the specific appellation, being founded on a specimen from Kodiak, 
where this only is found. The description, however, is as applicable to young 
of Myiadestes Townsendii, and it was called a ‘‘ Muscicapa.’’ Bonaparte, in 
Comptes Rendus, 1854, thinks it is ‘‘very certainly the 7. Swainsoni, but 
may not be the JT’. Pallassi of Cabanis.’’ The size, however, does not agree 
with either of them, and perhaps for this reason Cabanis substituted Pallasst 
(founded on a Cuban specimen) for his 7’. guttatus, 1844, founded on Pallas’s 
bird. The African 7’. guttatus Vigors, need cause no confusion, being doubt- 
less a later named species. 
T. usruLatus—Oregon Thrush, p. 5. This name is also prior to those of 
its eastern representatives. Townsend and Audubon confounded it with 
T. fuscescens (‘‘Wilsont’’), which opinion was formerly endorsed by J. A. 
Allen; while Coues in 1872, and later authors, make it a variety of ‘7’. Swain- 
soni”? Cab. This, besides being named later, was described as from Siberia, 
* The song described by Ridgway as of 7. ustulatus in the Sierra Nevada, and like that of 
the Wood Thrush, was more probably that of TZ. nanus. 
+ 7. Aonalaschka Gmel answers still better to the young of 7. nanus, and could scarcely 
be a fringilline bird, as suggested by Baird, for Gmelin described the three spotted spar- 
rows from there as “ Fringilla,” &c. Melospiza Lincolnii could scarcely be confounded 
with it. See farther on, under Passerculus Sandwichensis. 
