304 Oberholser, a Nexv North Americati Thrush. \f^^ 



bird named by him to be northeastern North America, casually 

 Peru, and furthermore evidently describes a specimen taken by 

 himself during October, in New Jersey, which place may conse- 

 quently be taken as the type locality. The Turdtis fjiijiimus of 

 Lafresnaye, ^ if belonging here at all, probably refers to the 

 eastern race, though its status cannot be determined with certainty. 

 Swainson and Richardson's description of their Merula zvihonii^ 

 probably belongs also to the eastern form, though even were such 

 not the case the name would still be unavailable, being merely a 

 misidentification of their bird with the Turdus wilsonii of Bona- 

 parte {r^fuscesceiis of Stephens) . All other synonyms apply 

 unequivocally to the eastern race, and the bird from the Rocky 

 Mountain region being thus without a name, may be called 



Hylocichla^ ustulata almse, sabsp. nov. Alma's Thrush. 



Chars, subsp. — Hylocichla H. u. sivaiiisonii persuuilis, sed noiaeo hypo- 

 chondriisque canescentioribus,. 



Geographic Distribution. — Rockj Mountain region of the United 

 States, west to Utah and eastern Nevada; in winter south to Mexico, and 

 east, sporadically, to Indiana. 



Description. — Type, male adult. No. 159053, U. S. National Museum, 

 Biological Survey Collection; East Humboldt Mts , opposite Franklin 

 Lake, Nevada, June 24, 1898; H. C. Oberholser. Upper parts hair brown, 

 with a slight tinge of greenish ; just a shade darker and browner on 

 forehead and crown; tail fuscous, the central feathers and external webs 

 of all the rest identical in color with the back; wings fuscous, the lesser 

 and median coverts, with outer edgings of all the other feathers, like the 

 upper surface of the body ; basal portion of inner webs of secondaries 

 and innermost primaries buffy. Lores, eye-ring, cheeks, jugulum and 

 sides of neck buff, the lores, cheeks and auriculars much mixed with 

 brownish, the jugulum, sides of neck, and sides of throat with more or 

 less triangular spots of dark brown ; a dark brown sub-malar streak; 

 chin and middle of throat buffy white, almost immaculate; remainder of 

 lower parts white, the sides and flanks brownish gray, the breast spotted 

 with same color; under wing-coverts fuscous, edged with buff. Wing, 

 96 mm.; tail, 74 mm.; e^iposed culmen, 11.5 mm.; tarsus, 28 mm. 



' Rev. ZooL, XI, 184S', 5. 



^ Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, 1S31, 182. 



■^Hylocichla seems to be a perfectly good genus. The long tarsi, and 

 broader, more depressed bill distinguish it sutificiently from Turdus, which 

 thus becomes restricted to the Old World. 



