PLANBSTICUS. HYLOCICHLA. 387 



Habits. The following note is quoted from Beebe (Our Search 

 for a Wilderness, p. 322):— "A beautiful nest of a White- 

 throated Robin made of green growing moss, and placed close to 



the trunk of a tree, about six feet from the ground This 



Thrush is olive-brown above, pale below with a streaked chin and 

 throat like our Northern Robin. Its most characteristic mark, 

 however, is a patch of pure white on the upper breast, which 



flashes out like a star among the shadows of the Jungle 



There were two eggs, pale blue-green, thickly spotted with brown 

 of various shades, much more densely at the larger end." 



Genus HYLOCICHLA Baird. 



Hylocichla Baird, Review American Birds, p. 12, 1864. Type -ST. mus 

 telinus (Gmel.). 



Fig. 148.— To show the form of the bill. 



The species that comprise this genus differ from the Thrushes 

 generally by their smaller size. The bill is short and compressed 

 on the apical portion, its width at the nostrils being rather less 

 than half the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, 

 the third and fourth primaries longest and equal, the second about 

 equal to the fifth, and the first about one-sixth the length of the 

 second. The tail is square at the tip and about two-thirds the 

 length of the wing, and the tarsus is slightly less than half 

 the length of the tail. Coloration : male and female similar. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Upper surface pale fulvous ff. fuscescens, p. 388. 



B. Upper surface olive S. alicice, p. 388. 



C. Upper surface dark ochreous-brown -ff. MS<«Zato, p. 389. 



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