TURDUS 



Ad. (New Brunswick). Above brownish olivaceous, tail and upper tail- 

 coverts reddish brown ; below white washed with pale buff, sides of throat 

 and breast marked with sub-triangular dark brown spots ; bill darkish 

 brown, pale yellowish at the base ; legs brownish ; iris hazel. Culmen 0'59 

 wing 3'64, tail 2'88, tarsus 1'19 inch. 



Hal. North America, east of the Rocky Mountains, wintering 

 as far south as Florida ; has strayed to Europe, one having 

 been obtained at Klein Zerbst, in Anhalt in 1825 a second in 

 Switzerland, a third in Heligoland in 1836, and a fourth, which 

 is, however, open to doubt, near Vienna in 1846. 



It frequents wooded, swampy localities, especially alder 

 swamps, hence its name " Swamp Robin," by which it is gene- 

 rally known in New Brunswick, and is more terrestrial in 

 its habits than Turdus swainsoni. Its song is exceeedingly 

 sweet and melodious, and it was certainly the best songster 

 I met with in New Brunswick. Its food consists chiefly of 

 insects, worms, and small snails, which it picks up from the 

 ground. Its nest is placed on the ground in damp, swampy, 

 bush-covered localities, and is constructed of dead leaves, grass- 

 bents, weeds, and bark-strips, lined with fine fibres, and the 

 eggs 4 or 5 in number are deposited in May or early in 

 June, and are uniform greenish-blue, unspotted, measuring 

 about 0*88 by 0'7. American ornithologists recognise two sub- 

 species of the present bird, viz., Turdus names, which inhabits 

 Western North America, from Kodiak to Cape St. Lucas and 

 Arizona, and Turdus auduboni, which inhabits the Rocky Moun- 

 tains from Fort Bridger south into Mexico. 



6. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. 

 TURDUS ALICLJE. 



Turdus alicice, Baird. B. N. Am. p. 217, pi. 81, fig. 2 (1858) ; Taczs. 

 F. O. Sib. 0. p. 318 ; Palmen, Vega. Exp. Fogelf., p. 262 ; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 202. 



Oyngoptschzkadlin, Tschuktch. 



Ad. (N. America). Differs from T. swainsoni in having the upper parts 

 greyish olive, sides of the head ashy grey ; under parts white, the chest 

 sometimes tinged with buff, and marked with triangular plumbeous brown 

 spots ; axillaries dull greyish olivaceous ; a distinct whitish orbital ring ; 

 legs brown. Culmen 0'55, wing 4'0, tail 3*2, tarsus 1*1 inch. The young of 

 these three American Thrushes differ from the adult in having the upper 

 parts marked with warm buff, and the adults are rather darker in the 

 autumn than in the spring. Sexes similar. 



