TrnDID.K — TUB THUrSlIKS. 



21) 



Turdus nsevius, (!mki,. 



OBEOON ROBIN; VABIED THBTJSH. 



Turdus tiivf! us, Cm. S. N. I, 1788, H17. — .Sclatkii, 1'. Z. S. 18r.7, 4; ISr.it, SSI. — 

 M.viui), liirds N. Am. UiiS, 21!) ; Ucv. Am. B. 1SG4, ;V2. — Ciiiu'kk & SrcKLKY, 1'. K. 

 H. K. XII, II, ISuit, 172. — Cori-.s, IV A. X. S. 18()t), 65. ((Quotes lUMniiicmc on 

 Cdloriido Uivcr, iilmve Fort Moliiivc, as txi-i'jitioiml.) — Maynauii jMiis.siKlmsetU 1). - 

 TriiNni'T.i. (N. .Ici-sfy !). — 1)ai,i. & Hanni.sikk (.Vluska). — Cimipkii, Hinls Cal. 10. 

 ()r/ilieiis mi'niliiidiK, IJicil. F. U. A. II, 18:51, 187, pi. .\.vxviii. 



OtliiT li{,'ui('s : ViKii.i.iir, Ois. Am. Scjit. II, 18il7, i)l. l.wi. — Ai:i). Uru. liio-,'. IV, 1838, 

 ]il. oi^d.xix, luiil icccxxxiii. — lii. Binls .\m. Ill, jil. cxliii. 



Sp. ("ii.Mi. Tail nearly even; tlio lateral leather .shorter. Ahove, rather dark lihiish 

 .slate ; iintlor part.s jjeiierally, a patdi on the npper eyelids eoiitiniimis with a stripe behinil 

 it alon^' the .side of the luwul and neck, iht! lower eyelid.s, two bands aero.s-s the wiiif,' 

 cdvert.s and the edjjes of the unills, in i)art, rufons oranire-l)r(>wn : middle of belly white. 

 Side.s of the head and neck, continnons with a liroad pectoral tran.-:v<'r.sc band, black. 

 Mo.st of tail feathers with a terminal [latcli of l)r()wnish white. Hill black. Feet yellow. 

 Fi-male more olivaceous above; the white of the abdomen more extended; the brown 

 beneath paler; the pectoral band olisolete. Lenfrtii, !)."") inches; wiiijjr, 5.00; tail, 3.!)0 ; 

 tarsus, 1. 2."). 



Youug (4r),8!)7, Sitka. Anfr. IStU!; F. Biseholl') E.\'artly roscmldiiip; the adnlt female, 

 hnriiu/ no sjxits other than seen in the adult, plnmafje ; lint the ])eetoral collar is composed 

 only of badly d<'fMie(l blacki.sh transverse? crescents, and the upper parts anterior to the 

 rump are of an \nnbcr brown tint. The markiui,'s about the head and on the wint;s are 

 precisely as in the adult. 



This species doe.s not appear to be liable to any noticeable variation. 



Hah. West coast of North America, from liehrinj; Straits to California; strafTirlin^'' to 

 (treat Bear Lake. .Vccidental on Lonjr Island (Cab. (J. X. Lawrence). Xew .lersey (Call. 

 Dr. Sanniel Cabot), ami [[iswieh, Ma.ss. (Cab. Boston Society Natural History); Iowa 

 (Allkn). 



IIahits. Tlu! iU'cideutal ocoiu'rence of 

 iniirkod bird in tlii' Kiistiini Sttiros 

 is its only clniin to ti pliiou in that 

 tiitiiia, it beiii}^ strictly a wcstoni 

 species, Iteloiijfiiio; to tlie Pacific 

 Coast. It was first discovered liy 

 tlie natuKilists of ('a])taiii Cook's 

 expedition, who met with it as far 

 to tlio north its Nootka Sound. It 

 is only very recei tly tliat we liavo 

 lieeoinc possu.-i.-ied of reliiihle infor- 

 mation in re^iird to its lireedin.L; 

 and its nest and ejij^s. Sir John 

 liichard.son was informed tliat it 

 nested in bushes in a manner simi- 

 lar to that of the common rohin. 7>m/,« mn ,»,.. 



Nnttall and Townsend fotind it aluiiidant annino the western slopes of the 



few specimens 

 t 



of this well- 



