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depressed. Adults: Dull brownish ash, paler below, especially on the 

 throat and belly; wings and tail blackish; the inner secondaries edged and 

 tipped with white and the outer tail feathers edged and broadly tipped with 

 white, nearly all the flight feathers extensively fulvous or yellowish brown 

 at the base, the middle ones edged on the outside with the same color, these 

 tawny markings appearing in the closed wing as an oblique spot separated 

 by a bar of blackish from the tawny patch on the outer webs of the quills 

 near their ends; white eye ring; iris brown; bill and feet black. Young: 

 Speckled like the young thrush, but the spots disappearing after the first moult. 

 Length 8 inches; wing 4.25; tail 4.25; bill .5; tarsus .75. 



Distribution. Townsend's solitaire inhabits western North America, 

 breeding in the boreal zone from eastern Alaska, southwestern Mackenzie 

 and western Alberta southward to the San Bernardino mountains, and in 

 the Rocky mountains to Arizona and New Mexico. Winters from southern 

 British Columbia and Montana southward, occasionally straggling east- 

 ward in migration. The occurrence of this species in New York is based 

 on a single record. The specimen was captured at Kings Park, L. I., 

 November 25, 1905, by A. J. Weber (Dwight, Auk, 23:105). 



Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin) 

 Wood Thrush 



Plate 105 



Turdus mustelinus Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1789. 1:817 

 Merula mustelina DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 71, fig. 86 

 Hylocichla mustelina A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 359. No. 755 

 hylocichla, from Gr., meaning wood-thrush; mustelina, Lat., weasel-like, tawny 



Description. Upper parts cinnamon brown, brightest on the head, neck 

 and foreback, becoming olive brown on the rump and tail; under parts 

 white, boldly spotted with black on the breast and sides. 



Length 8 inches; extent 13; wing 4.25; tail 3; bill .75; tarsus 1.25. 



Distribution. The Wood thrush breeds from South Dakota, Minne- 

 sota, Wisconsin, southern Ontario and southern New Hampshire to Texas 

 and northern Florida; winters in southern Mexico and Central America. 

 In New York it is a summer resident of all portions of the State but is 

 not uniformly distributed. It is common in the southeastern portion of 

 the State as well as in western New York in all mixed and deciduous wood- 



