TURDUS N^EVIUS : VARIED THRUSH. 53 



VARIED THRUSH. 

 TURDUS N^EVIUS Gm. 



Chars. " Above, rather dark bluish slate ; under parts generally, 

 a patch on the upper eyelids continuous with a stripe behind it 

 along the side of the head and neck, the lower eyelid, two bands 

 across the wing-coverts and the edges of the quills, in part, rufous 

 orange brown ; middle of the belly white. Sides of head and 

 neck, continuous with a broad pectoral transverse band, black. 

 Most of the tail-feathers with a terminal patch of brownish white. 

 Bill black. Feet yellow. Female more olivaceous above, the 

 white of the abdomen more extended, the brown beneath paler ; 

 the pectoral band obsolete. Length, 9.75 ; extent, 15.00; wing, 

 3.90; tail, 1.25." (Batrd.) 



The Oregon Robin, or Varied Thrush, is only a 

 straggler from the Pacific slopes. There is but one 

 authentic instance 

 of its occurrence 

 in New England. 

 A single individ- 

 ual was 

 taken at 

 Ipswic h, 

 Mass., in 

 D e c e m- 

 ber, 1864. 



(See Coucs, Pr. Es- 

 sex Inst., v, 1868, p. 

 312; Allen, Am. Nat., 

 iii, 1869, p. 572 ; May- 

 nard, Nat. Guide, 



l870, p. 89; Brewer, FIG. 8.- HEAD OF VARIED THRUSH. (Nat. size.) 



Pr. Bost. Soc., xvii, 1.875, P- 43^ ; Allen, Bull. Essex 



