SYNONYMY OF TURDUS MIGRATORIUS 9 



173. Lockiv. Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 770. Hold. Pr, Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 193 Mayn. Pr. 



Boat. Soc. xv. 1872, 357. Scott, Pr. Boat. Soc. xv. 1872, 22Q.Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. 



xv. 1873, 234. Merr. TJ. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 712. Eidg. Bull Essex 



Inst. v. 1873, 179,-Snow, B. Kansas, 1873, 3. Ooues, Prybilov. Is. 1873, app. ; 8vo 



ed. 1875, 172; Harting ed. 1875, 16. Boyce, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 203. Eds. Am. Nat. 



viii. 1874, 271. Comstock, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 76. Coop. Am. Nat. riii. 1874, 16. 



Eidg. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 178. Merrill, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 547. Allen, Pr. Bost. Soc. 



1874, 45, 4S.-Cou-es, BNW. 1874, 1, 228.-C'owes, Checkl. 1874, No. 1. Allen, Pr. Bost. 



Soc. xvii. 1874, 48.Eidgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 1874, 365. Hensh. Ann. Lye. N. T. x. 



1874, 2. Hensh. d-.Iarr. Eep. Wheeler's Exp. 1874, 5, 39,56, 70, 96. Hensh. Zool. 



Wheeler's Exp. 1875, 143 (in press). Eidgw. Zool. 40th Par. 187-, 9 (in press). 



Boies, Cat. B. Michigan, 1875, . Nels. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 338, 345, 349, 355. 



Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438. 

 Turdus megratorius, Bodd. Tabl. PE. 1783, 32, pi. 556, f. 1. 

 Turd us migratorius var. migratorius, Bd. Br. & Ey. NAB. i. 1874, 25, pi. 2, f. 2. 

 Turdus i IMancst irus) migratorius, Bd. BNA. 1858, 218. Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1861, 218 



Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. iv. 1864, 58. Ooues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 64. Merr. TJ. S. Geol. 



Surv. for 1872, 1873, 670. 

 Planesticus migratorius, Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 106. Coues, Ibis, 1865, 163. Merr. 



TJ. S. Gebl. Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 713 ; Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 7, 8, 86. Gundl. J. f. 



0. 1872, 405. 

 Merula migratoria, S. & R. FBA. ii. 1831, 176. Wailes, Rep. Miss. 1854, 318. Gould, BE. 



pi. 74. 



Turdus canadensis, Brits. Orn. ii. 1760, 2-25, No. 9. Mutt. SN. Suppl. 1776, 140. 

 Turdus pilaris migratorius, Kalm. in. 46. 

 Fieldfare of Carolina, Catesby, Car. i. pi. 29. 

 Litorne de Canada, Buff. Ois. iii. 307. 

 Grive de Canada, Buff. PE. 556. f. l. 

 American Fieldfare, Forst. Phil. Tr. Ixii. 1772, 399. 



Red-breasted Thrush, Penn. AZ. ii. 1785, 335, No. 196. Lath. Syn. ii. , 26, No. 12. 

 Merle Erratique, Temm. Man. iii. 1835, 9l.Degl.-Oerbe, OE. i. 1867, 406. 

 Merle ou Rouge-gorge du Canada, Le Moine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 164. 

 Migratory Thrush ; American Redbreast ; American Robin ; Robin Redbreast; Robin, 



Yulgo. 



Var. 



Turdus conflnis, Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, 29. Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 9. Elliot, BNA. -.Merrill, 



Am. Nat. viii, 1874, 547. 

 Turdus migratorius var. conflnis, Coues, Key, 1872, 72. Bd. Br. & Ey. NAB. i. 1874, 27, pi. 



2, f. 1. 



HAB. North and Middle America ; Greenland ; some of the West India 

 Islands; Europe, accidentally. 



CH. SP. < 9 . Olivaceo-schistaceus, capite caudaque nigricanti- 

 bus, alls fuscis cinereo-marginatis, gastrceo subaxillaribusque cas- 

 taneis, gula albo-striata, palpebris, tibiis crissoque albis^ rostro 

 flavo. 



$ in summer: Upper parts slate-color, with a shade of olive. Head* 

 black, the eyelids and a spot before the eye white, and the throat streaked 

 with white. Quills of the wings dusky, edged with hoary ash, and with the 

 color of the back. Tail blackish, the outer feather usually tipped with 

 white. Under parts, to the vent, including the under wing-coverts, chest- 

 nut. Under tail-coverts and tibire white, showing more or less plumbeous. 

 Bill yellow, often with a dusky tip. Mouth yellow. Eyes dark brown. 

 Feet blackish, the soles yellowish. Length about 10 inches ; extent about 

 16; wing, 5-5^; tail, 4-4| ; bill, ; tarsus, 1: middle toe and claw about 

 the same. 



