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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Turdus rufitorques. 



Ttirdus rufitorques, Haktlaub, Rev. Zool. 1844, 214. — Solatee, P. Z. S. 

 1859, 334; Ibis, II, 1860, 29 ; Catal. 1861, 6, no. 35. 

 Mab. Guatemala ; Dueiias. 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 No.. 



20,391 



Collec- 

 tor's 

 No. 



and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



Dueiias, Guat. 



When 

 Collected. 



Aug. 3, 1859. 



Received from 



Collected by 



Hesperocichla. 

 Tardus naevius. 



Turdus nasvius, Gm. S. N. 1, 1788, 817.— Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1857,4; 1859, 

 331.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 219.— Cooper & Sucklet, P. R. 

 E. R. XII, II, 1859, 172. 



Orpheus meruloides, Rich. F. B. A. II, 1831, 187, pi. xxxvlil. 



Other figures : Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, pi. Ixvi. — Acd. Om. 

 Biog. IV, 1838, pi. 369, and 433.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, pi. 143. 



This species is not recorded as found elsewhere than on the north- 

 west coast of America, from California northward to Russian America. 

 Richardson obtained a single specimen on Great Bear Lake, described 

 as Orpheus meruloides ; and Mr. Kennicott found another in the 

 Rocky Mts., on Porcupine River (No. 27,221, August 28, 1861, col- 

 lector's number 1,612). 



It is proper to state that the specimen collected by Mr. Kennicott 

 (of which only the head and wing were preserved) exhibits a decided 

 notch in the bill. Nothing approximating to this character, how- 

 ever, could be discerned in over fifty other specimens examined ; in 

 all of which, if any indication of notch existed, it was of the most 

 obsolete character, and was, in most instances, not to be found at all. 



PLATYCICHLA, Baird. 

 Platyciclda, Baird, n. g. (Type P. brevipes.') 



Among the South American Thrushes in the Museum of the 

 Smithsonian Institution is one (No. 23,954) for which I am unable 



' Platycichla brevipes, Baikd. The upper parts are greeni.-ih-olive with an 

 appearance of darlter edges to the feathers of the liead and back. The under 



