30 KM-LKTIN: MISEIM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



rrpinl to the sourer of the specimen, iiulicati'tl on the first of these 

 hil>els, is refieeted in the ^Mianled statement made hy Lafresnaye in 

 the (^rijrinal description. " II no\is a ete \ eiuhi eonnne (hi Mexi(in<\" 



A careful examination of the type-specimen reveals that the narrow 

 bars anil transverse markings on the breast, referred to by Hidpva,\- 

 (loc. cit., p. I^KTi). are on a few feathers which do not belong to the bird, 

 but which had been glued on by the taxidermist to cover some bare 

 spt>ts. The feathers on these patches are wider and of a wholly dilfer- 

 ent shape from tliose belonging to the bird. The bird's own breast- 

 feathers are spotted as in //. haltcatus, and not barred or lined. We 

 cannot detect any ditt'erencc in the width of the white and dusky 

 bands across the remiges from those in the specimens of //. haltcatus 

 from Peru which we have before us, and with which the type of //. 

 pallcscnis agrees in size and very closely in all respects except that the 

 darker markings are paler and more grayish brown instead of black- 

 ish, due to fading from long exposure to the light. 



Hylocichla minima minima (Lafresnaye). 



Turdus minimus Lafresnaye, Rev. zool., 1848, p. 5 ("Habitat ad 

 Bogotam, in Xova-Grenada"). 



Ti/pc.— M. C. Z. 7(),498, Lafn coll. 3,54L 



Ilylocichh aliciae bick7icUi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. N. M., 6 April, 

 18S2, 4, p. 377 (Slide Mt., Ulster Co., New York). 



Apparently no ornithologist of the present generation had examined 

 the type of Txirdus minimus Lafresnaye, until we recently did so. By 

 common consent the name has appeared in all modern works among 

 the synon\Tns of Hylocichla iistulata swainsoni (Cabanis). We were 

 therefore surprised upon comparing the type to find that not only is 

 it an Alice's Thrush and not a Swainson's Thrush, but that it is an 

 extreme example of the southern form of Alice's Thrush, always known 

 as Hylocichla aliciae bicknelli Ridgway. If the specimen really came 

 from Bogotd as Lafresnaye thought it did, it is also the southernmost 

 record for the subspecies, which otherwise has not been found winter- 

 ing in South America. In order to be certain that our identification 

 might not be questioned, we have submitted the type to the following 

 American ornithologists, Messrs. Batchelder, Brewster, Faxon, 

 OberhoLser, and Riclmiond, who all agree with us. 



The two subspecies are: — 



Hylocichla minima minima (Lafr.). 



Hylocichla minima aliciae (Baird). 



