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XOKTIl AMEHICAN lilllDS. 



Hahits. At jM'oaciit wu liave but little knowlcdjiu of the liiiltits of tliis form 

 of T. j)ii//ifsi\ iuiil no iiiforiiiiition wliatoviT ro,L,Mr(liii^' it.s nestiii;,' or i'l;i;s. 



In its (listriliution it is confinod to the cuntnil range (jf mountains i'roni 

 Fort Hridgcr to Soutliern ^kxieo. Tiiis species, there known i> " Sdlitario," 

 is common in tlic Alpine region of Vera Cruz (as well as in all the elevated 

 regions of Ceni 1 Mexico), fre(pienting the jiine wtxids in the district of 

 Orizaha. Mr. Suinichrast obtained it at all seasons of tiie year at Moyoapani, 

 in that vicinity; a locality the height of which approximates 2,r)(l{) metres. 

 It is also found at a height of l,li()() metrbd, near the city of Orizaba. 



Mr. Jlidgway calls this bird the " llocky Mountain Hermit Thrush." 

 He states that he i'ound it common in the Wahsatcli Mountain.s, but tiiat, 

 on account of its retiring haliits, it was seldom seen. It there lives 

 chiefly in the deep ravines in the pine region, exhibiting an attachment to 

 these solitudes ralhi-r than to the thickets along the watercourses lowi-r 

 down; the latter it leaves to the T. airfdnsoni. Owing to the reservt;d 

 manners of this bird, as well as to the great ditliculty of reaching its alxtde, 

 there were few opportunities j)reseuted for learning nmch eoncevning its 

 habits, nor did he hear its .song. In its lliglit the i)ale ochraceous 'and across 

 the bases of its (juills was a very conspicuous feature in the ajipearance of 

 its species, leading Mr. Itidgway to mistake it at first for the Mi/indesfes 

 tiiirnai'ndii, — also an inhabitant of the same localities, — so much did it 

 look like that bird, which it further resembled in its noiseless, gliding flight. 



SunoExus TURD US, T,i\x. 



Of 2'iirilus, ill its most restricted sense, we have no purely American 



rei)resentatives, althougli it 

 belongs to the fauna of the 

 New AVorld in consc(iuence 

 of one siiccies occui'ving 

 in Greenland, that meet- 

 ing-ground of the birds 

 of America and Europe ; 

 which, howev(ir, we include 

 in the present work, as 

 related much more closely 

 to the I'ormer. 



This (Jreenland species, 

 Tvnhis i/mciis, is closely 

 related to 7\ vi.-icirorus, the 

 type of the genus, and 

 comes much closer to the 



Ttirdus iliiicus. 



Ampri(;an Tiobins (l'/(iiifntiriis) than to the Wood Tliru.shes (ITi//ocirh/ii). 



