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763. Hesperocichla nsevia (Gmel.). 



Varied Thrush. 



Turdus ncBvius Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 817. 

 Hesperocichla ncBvia Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Aug. 24, 

 1880, 166. 



[B156, C2, R9, C5.] 



Geog. Dist. — • Pacific coast of North America, from Bering Strait 

 to southern California. Accidental on Guadalupe Island, Lower 

 California, and in New Jersey, Long Island, and Massachusetts. 



Genus CYANECULA Brehm. 

 Cyanecula Brehm, Isis, 1828, 1280. Type, Motacilla suecica Linn. 

 [764.] Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



Red-spotted Bluethroat. 



Motacilla suecica Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 187. 

 Cyanecula suecica Brehm, Isis, 1828, 1280. 



[B— , C— , R20, C31.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of the Old World ; casual in Alaska. 



Genus SAXICOLA Bechstein. 



Saxicola Bechst. Orn. Taschb. 1803, 216. Type, Motacilla 

 oenanthe Linn. 



765. Saxicola oenanthe (Linn.). 



Wheatear. 



Motacilla oenanthe Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 186. 

 Saxicola oenanthe Bechst. Orn. Taschb. 1803, 217. 



[B157, C 15, R 21, C 26.] 



Geog. Dist. — Europe, North Africa, Asia, Alaska, Greeenland,, 

 and Labrador, straggling southward to Nova Scotia, Maine, Long 

 Island, and Bermuda. Accidental at New Orleans, La. 



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