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to be but one other— also in the collection of the National Museum — which 
was taken in North America, at St. Michael’s, Alaska, by Dr. Dall, during 
the Russian Telegraph Expedition. The species is normally confined to the 
Old World, where it has an extensive range, being found throughout Europe, 
in northern Africa, and in Asia from northern Siberia to Japan, China, and 
India. 
Oroscoptes montanus (Towns.). 
Sacre THRASHER. 
Oreoscoptes montanus BELDING, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 534 (Cape Region). 
Oroscoptes montanus Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 318, 814 
(Cape Region). 
Mr. Belding notes the Sage Thrasher as rare in the Cape Region. He does 
not state just when or where he found it, but the collection of the National 
Museum contains two specimens (No. 86,233, ¢, and No. 86,234, 9), taken 
by him at La Paz on January 27, 1882. Mr. Frazar is very sure that he saw 
one on the road between San José del Cabo and Miraflores on November 18, 
1887, but, with this possible exception, he did not meet with the species, nor 
has it been detected further to the northward by Mr. Bryant. Mr. Anthony, 
however, attests its presence “along the northwest coast in spring under 1,000 
feet altitude” (Bryant), and also reports that it “ winters in comparative 
abundance ” throughout most of the region about San Fernando.} 
The birds obtained at La Paz by Mr. Belding are larger and much deeper 
colored than any of my Texas skins, but they are closely matched by several 
specimens in my ccllection from Riverside, California. 
The Sage Thrasher ranges northward, on or near the Pacific coast, to 
British Columbia, but does not appear to be common at many places west of 
the Sierras. I have several specimens from the city of Chihuahua, but none 
from the western part of Mexico. 
Mimus polyglottos leucopterus (Vicors). 
WESTERN MOockKINGBIRD. 
Mimus polyglottus (not Turdus polyglottos Lixnarus) Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1859, 301 (Cape St. Lucas), 303 (crit.; Cape St. Lucas). Sanvry and 
GopmanN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, I. 1879, 36, part (crit.; Cape St. Lucas). 
Beipine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 18838, 584 (Cape Region); VI. 1888, 345 
(Cape Region). 
Mimus polygiottos (not Turdus polyglottos LINNAEUS) Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 
2d ser., II. 1889, 314 (Cape Region). 
Mimus polyglottos leucopterus Mearns, Auk, XIX. 1902, 70-72 (orig. descr. ; char- 
acters drawn from Lower California and other material). 
1 Anthony, Auk, XII. 1895, 142. 
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