SYNONYMY OF TURDUS MIGEATORIUS 9 



■m.—Lochv.Am. Nat. vi. 1872, -m.—Hold. Pr. Boat. So;!, xv. 187a, 193— Mayn. Pr. 



Bost. Soo. XV. 1872, 357.— SooK, Pr. Bost. Soo. xv. 1872, iW.—Trippe, Pr. Host. Soc. 



XV. 1873, 234.— Merr. TT. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 712.— JJid^. Bull. Essex 



Inst. V. 1873, 179.-5n«M>, B. Kansas, 1873, 3.—Ooucs, Prybilov. Is. 1873, app. — ; 8vo 



ed.l875, 172; Hartinged. 1875, 16.— Boyce, Am. H"at. viii. 18T4, 203.— JTds. Am. Nat. 



viii. 1874, 271.— Comstoc*, Am. Nat viii. 1874, W.—Coop. Am. Nat viii. 1874, 16.— 



Sidg. Am. Nat viii. 1874, ns.—MerriM, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 547.— AZien, Pr. Bost Soo. 



1874, 45,48.— GoKes, BNW. 1874, 1, 228.— Oowes, Checkl. 1874, No. l.—A!!en, Pr. Bost 



Soc. xvii. 1874, iS.—Bidgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. 1874, 365.— Sensh. Ann. Lyo. N. T. x. 



1874, i.—Rensh. <t Yarr. Eep. Wlieeler's Exp. 1874, 5, 39, 56, 70, 96.— JSensA. Zool. 



Wheeler's Exp. 1875, 143 (in press). — Bidgw. Zool. 40tli Par. 187-, 9 (in press). — 



Boies, Cat B. Michigan, 1875, — . —Nels. Pr. Bost Soo. xvii. 1875, 338, 345, 349, 355.— 



Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438. 

 Turdus megratorlus, Bodd. Tabl. PE. 1783, 32, pi. 556, f. 1. 

 Turdus mlsratorlus var. mtgratorlus, Bd. Br. a By. NAB. i. 1874, 25, pi. 2, f. 2. 

 Turdns (Flanestlcns) mlgratoriiis, Bd. BNA. 1858, 218.— Ooues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1861, 218.— 



AUen, Pr. Essex Instiv. 1864, 58.— Ooues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 64.— Aferr. U. S. Geol. 



Snrv. for 1873, 1873, 670. 

 Planesticus migratorius, Henry, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, loe.— Cones, Ibis, 1865, 163.— Jlferr. 



TJ. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr, for 1872, 1873, 713 ; Am. Nat viii. 1874, 7, 8, Be.-Oundl 3. f. 



0. 1872, 405. 

 Merula migratoria, /$. d- B. FBA. ii. 1831, 176.— TFaites, Eep. Miss. 1854, 318.— Gowli, BE. 



pi. 74. 

 Turdus canadensis, Uriss. Orn. ii. 1760, 225, No. 9.— MtiZi. SN. Sappl. 1776, 140. 

 Turdus pilaris mlgratorius, Kalm. iii. 46. 

 Fieldfare of Carolina, Oatesby, Car. i. pi. 29. 

 lltorne de Canada, Buf. Ois. iii. 307. 

 Crlve de Canada, Buff. PE. 556. f. 1. 

 American Fieldfare, Forst. Phil. Tr. Ixii. 1772, 399. 



Red-breasted Tlirusli, Perm. AZ. ii. 1785, 335, No. 196.— Lath. Syn. ii. — , 26, No. 12. 

 Merle Erratique, Temm. Man. iii. 1835, 91.— Begl.-Gerbe, OE. i. 1867, 406. 

 Merle ou Rouge-gorge du Canada, lie Moine, Ois. Canad. 1861, 164. 

 Migratory Thrusli ; American Redbreast ; American Robin ; Robiu Redbreast; Robin, 



Yulgo. 



Tar. 



Tardus conflnis, 23d. Kev. AB. 1864, W.-Ooop. B. Cal. i. 1870, 9.— Elliot, BNA. —.—Merrill, 



Am. Nat viii, 1874, 547. 

 Turdus migratorius var. conflnis, Coues,Key, 1872, Ti.—Bd. Br. & By.TSAB. i. 1874,27, pi. 



2, f. 1. 

 Hab. — North and Middle America ; Greenland ; some of tbe West India 

 Islands; Europe, accidentally. 



Ch. sp. — ^ 9 . Olivaeeo-scMstaceus, capite eaudaque nigrieanti- 

 bus, alls fuscis cinereo-marginatis, gastrceo subaxillaribusque cas- 

 tanets, gula dlho-striata, palpebris, tibiis erissoque albis, rostro 

 flavo. 



g in summer: Upper parts slate-color, with a shade of olive. Head 

 black, the eyelids and a spot before the eye white, and the throat streaked 

 with white. Quills of the wings dusky, edged with hoary ash, and with the 

 color of the back. Tail blackish, the outer feather usually tipped with 

 white. Under parts, to the vent, including the under wing-coverts, chest- 

 nut. Under tail-coverts and tibia3 white, showing more or less plumbeous. 

 Bill yellow, often with a dusky tip. Mouth yellow. Eyes dark brown. 

 Feet blackish, the soles yellowish. Length about 10 inches ; extent about 

 16; wing, 5-5i; tail, 4-4^ ; bill, |^; tarsus, IJ: middle toe and claw about 

 the same. 



