TURDUS. If 



In Rocky Mountain skins, tlie tail Is t- itiicr black except a very 

 narrow whitish edge, or the white tips of eastern HpeeinienH are ro- 

 placed by a dull gray. The black of the head, too, is better defined, 

 the interscapulur feathers more uniformly ash, and the upper parts 

 without the faint brownish wanh so frequently seen in eaHtcrn speei- 

 mcns. There are, however, some exceptions to these features, in the 

 8eri«'s from each locality. The colors generally of western bird* 

 appear to be pa)er. 



It may be pvoper to state that, while in spring adult specimens 

 the bill is yellow with the extreme tip dusky, in immature, and per- 

 hui).s winter dress, there is every gradation from this to a uniformly 

 dusky bill. The entire culmen is frequently tinged with brown. 



In none of the specimens before me is the head entirely destitute 

 of its brown or blackish color, although the edges of the feathers 

 are fr('(iuently so much tinged with ash as greatly to obscure this 

 character. 



The bills vary considerably in length — the shortest measuring ,50 

 from tip to nostrils, the average being barely .60. 



A specimen from Mirador, Mex. (No. 23.908), agrees generally 

 with skins from the United States, but the throat anteriorly is so 

 closely streaked with black as to exceed the white in amount, this 

 color being restricted principally to the chin. 



This species is found throughout the whole of North America, 

 north to the Arctic Ocean, wherever collections have been made, 

 and as far south as the latitude of Vera Cruz. No species are more 

 generally distributed in North America than this bird and Dendrceca 

 sediva. I find no mention of its occurrence south of Mexico. 



I mention only the extra limital specimens of the many skins in 

 the Smithsonian collection. 



Turdiis coiifinis. 



Tr^dus cnnjinis, Baird, n. 8. 

 Hah. Todo3 Santos, Cape St. Lucas. 



No. 2.3,789. Entire upper parts and sides of head and neck uni- 

 form grnyish ash, with ])erhap8 a faint tinge of olivaceous, less than 

 in eastern specimens of T. migratorius. The central portions of the 



