»>*) 



NOI5TII AMtilllCAN IIIUDS. 



Habits. At jnoseiit we liave hut little knowledge of the luihits of this fonn 

 of T. iHillasi, and no infnnnation whatever rej^ardiiij,' its iie.stiiij,' or e^j^'s. 



In its distrihution it is confined to the central mn^e of mountains from 

 Fort liritlj^'er t(» Soutliern Mexico. Tliis species, there known as "Solitario," 

 is common in the Alpine re^'ion of Vera Cruz (as well as in all the elevati'd 

 rej^ions of Centr.d Mexico), freipientinj^' tlie i>ine woods in the «listrict of 

 Orizalui. Mr. Sumichrast obtained it at all .seasons of tlie year at Moyoapam, 

 in that vicinity; a Locality tlie hei^^ht of whicli approximates 2,'>0() metres. 

 It is also found at a heii^ht of 1,200 metres, near the city of Orizaha. 



Mr. liidi,'way calls this hird the " llocky Mountain Hermit Tlirush." 

 He states that he found it common in the Wahsatch Mountains, hut that, 

 on account of its retiring: hahits, it was seldom seen. It there lives 

 chieHy in the deep ravines in the pine re;.;ion, exhibiting' an attadiment to 

 these solitudes rather than to the tliickets along the watercourses lower 

 down; the latter it leaves to the T. niniiiiiioni. Owinj,' to the reserved 

 manners of this bird, as well as to the j^^reat ditticulty of reachinjx its abode, 

 there Mere few o|)portunities presented for learning much concerning its 

 habits, nor did he hear its song. In its Higlit the pale ochraceous band across 

 the bases of its quills was a very conspicuous feature in the apjK*arance of 

 its si)ecies, leading ^Ir. Kidgway to mistake it at first for the Mf/ifttfcstes 

 tinrnsvniUi, — also an inhabitant of the same localities, — so much did it 

 look like that bird, which it further resembled in its noiseless, gliding flight. 



Subgenus TTTRDUS, T.ixx. 



Of Tardus, iu its most restricted sense, we have no purely American 



representatives, although it 

 belongs to the fauna of the 

 New World in consecpience 

 of one si)ecies occurring 

 in Greenland, that meet- 

 inij-<j;round of the birds 

 of America and Europe ; 

 which, howev(n', we include 

 in the present work, as 

 related much more closely 

 to the former. 



This Greenland species, 

 Tvrdns iliacKs, is closely 

 related to T. viscirorus, the 

 type of the genus, and 

 comes much closer to the 



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Turdus iliacus. 



American TJobins {Planestievs) than to the Wood Thrushes {Hijloeiclda). 



