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EEVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Additional figures : Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. Ixii. — Wilson, Am. 

 Orn. I, pi. ii. 



Eab. U. S. east of Missouri plains, south to Guatemala. Cuba, La Sagba ; 

 Honduras, Moore (Pr. Z. S. 1859, 55). 



This species varies less in its markings and shade of color than 

 perhaps any of our small spotted Thrushes. In some there is a faint 

 tinge of pale buff on the under parts, which are nearly pure white in 

 others, with the wash of buff restricted to the breast. Some speci- 

 mens appear more spotted beneath than others, but this is the case with 

 Northern skins (as 1569, from Carlisle) equally with more Southern ; 

 in fact specimens from Guatemala and Mexico exhibit precisely the 

 same variations in this respect. I am, therefore, not disposed to 

 consider Turdus densus, of Bonaparte, as a good species, unless 

 possessing distinctive characters not mentioned by that author, and 

 other than that of being more thickly spotted beneath, with the spots 

 larger and the bird smaller. 



The young Turdus mustelinus is like the adult, except in having 

 rusty yellow triangular spots in the ends of the wing coverts. 



Dr. Sclater gives Jamaica as one of the winter localities of this 

 Thrush. Mr. March has never met with it, and is of the opinion 

 that the bird referred to by Gosse is the Mimus hillii, at one time 

 supposed by the Jamaican Ornithologists to be the T. mustelinus. 



List of Specimens. 



8,390. Iris brown. 



Turdus pallasii. 



Turdus pallasii, Cabanis, Wiegmanu's Arohiv, 1847 (i), 205. Is. Jour- 

 nal f. Orn. 1855, 470 (Cuba).— Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 212.— 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 325.— Ib. Catal. 1861, 2, No. 7. ' . 



Turdus solitarius, Wilsos, Amer. Orn. V, 1812, 95 (not of LiNiTiEns).— 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, 212. 



Turdus minor, Bou. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72. 



Turdus guttatus, Cabakis, Tsobudi, Fauna Peruviana, 1844, 187 (not 

 Muscicapa guttata of Pallas). 



