44 CHARACTERS OF MYIADESTES TOWNSENDI 



and somewhat isolated group, having no very intimate rela- 

 tions with the other birds of our country, inhabiting woodland 

 and shrubbery, feeding on insects and berries, and capable of 

 musical expression in an exalted degree. 



Townsend's Flycatching Thrush 



Myiadestes townsemli 



PtilOgonjS townsendl, And. OB. v. 1839, 206, pi. 419, f. Z.Aud. Syn. 1839. 46. Nutt. Mail. 

 2d ed. i. 1840, 361. 



PtilOgonys tOWnsendii, And. BA. i. 1840, 243, pi. 69. Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. i. 1843, 261 

 (California). Gamb. Pr. Pbila. Acad. iii. 1847, 157 (California). Heerm. Journ. Phila. 

 Acad. ii. 1853, 262. Woodh. Sitgreave'sRep. 1853, 76. Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. viii. 1855, 

 308 (New Mexico). 



PtiliOgonys tOWnsendii, Gamb. Joura. Phila. Acad. i. 1847, 40.Newb. PRRR. vi. 1857, 82. 



Culicivora townsendl, DeKay, N. Y. Zool. ii. 1844, 110. 



MyiadeStCS tOWnsendii, Cab. Arch. f. Nat. 1847 (i), 208. Baird, BNA. 1858, 321. Henry, Pr. 

 Phila? Acad. xi. 1859, 106 (New Mexico). Kenn. PRRR. x. 1859, 25. Heerm. PKRR. x. 

 1859, 38. Xantus, Pr. Phila, Acad. xi. 1859, 191 (California). Hayd. Tr. Am. Philos. 

 Soc. xii. 1862, 162. Lord, Pr. Roy. Arty. Inst. iv. 1864, 116. Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 

 xviii. 1866, 72 (Arizona). Bd. Rev. AB. 1866, 429, fig. Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 34. 

 Coop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 134, figs. Stev. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 464. 

 Allen, Bull. MCZ. iii. 1872, 176. Coues, Key, 1872, 117, f. 57. Coues, BNW. 1874, 93. 



MyiadeSteS tOWnsendi, Sd. PZS. 1857, 5. Scl. PZS. 1858, 97. Coues, Ibis, 1865, 163 (Ari- 

 zona). Aiken, Pr. Bo*t. Soc. xv. 1872, 198 (Colorado). B. B. f?R. BNA. i. 1874, 406, pi. 

 18, figs. 3, 4.Henshaw, Zool. Expl. W. 100th Merid. 231 (in presw). 



MyladCStes Obscurus, Bp. CA. i. 1850, 336 (in part ; includes townsendl). (Not of Lafr.) 



Townsend's Ptilogonys, And. i. c. 

 Townsend's Flycatching Thrush, Coues, 1. c. 

 Townsend's Solitaire, B. B. 4- R. l. c. 



HAB. Western United States, from the easternmost foothills of the Rocky 

 Mountains to the Pacific and British Columbia. No known to penetrate 

 any distance into Mexico, where replaced by other species. 



CH. SP. $ 9 JSordide cinereus, infra dilutior, gula crissoque 

 albicantibus; alls nigricantibus, fulvo bisignatis; cauda nigricante, 

 rectrice extima albo-limbata, rectrice proxima albo-terminata; orbi- 

 tis alb is; rostro pedibusque nigris. 



$ 9 .General color dull brownish-ash, paler below, bleaching on the 

 throat, lower belly, and crissum. Wings blackish, the inner secondaries 

 edged and tipped with white, nearly all the quills extensively tawny or ful- 

 vous at the base, and several of the intermediate ones again edged exter- 

 nally toward their ends with the same color. In the closed wing, the basal 

 tawny shows upon the outside as an oblique spot in the recess between the 

 greater coverts and the bastard quills, separated by an oblique bar of black- 

 ish from the second tawny patch on the outer webs of the quills near their 

 ends. Tail like the wings (the middle pair of feathers more nearly like the 

 back) ; the outer feather edged and broadly tipped, the next one more nar- 



