10 TUEDLD^. 



b. Minor es, cauda dor so concolori. 



2. Turdus fuscesceus. 



Tardus fuscescens, Steph.j Shaw's Zool. x. p. 182^; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 326°; Baird, 

 Rev. Am. B. p. 17'; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 92*; Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 9"; 

 Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 57"; Merrill, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 119'. 



Turdus {Hylocichla) fuscescens, CoueSj B. Col. Vail. i. p. 39'. 



Supra rafescenti-brunneus unicolor ; subtus albus, colli lateribus et peotore rufescentibus maoulis subtriangu- 

 laribus brunneis parce adspersis ; rostro corylino, mandibulae basi et pedibus flavis. Long, tota 6-8, alse 

 3-8, caudse 2-75, rostri a rictu -9, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Wasbington, B.C., Smiths. Inst. no. 28230. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. N. Ameeica, Canada, Eastern States, and westwards to Utah, Colorado, and 

 Texas 5 s. — Panama, Lion Hill (M'Leannan)^, Aspinwall (Mm. Boucard). — S. 

 America to the Amazon ^ ; Cuba ^. 



An excellent account of this species, as regards its range within the limits of North 

 America, its habits and synonymy, is given in Dr. Coues's ' Birds of the Colorado 

 Valley ' ^, and in Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway's work ^ In the former Dr. Coues 

 remarks on the absence of Turdus fuscescens from Arizona and New Mexico, and adds 

 that it must take a somewhat circuitous route in gaining its winter home in Central 

 America. But the records of the occurrence of this species outside the limits of the 

 United States are so scanty that it can hardly be said that we really know where the 

 major portion of the winter migrants go during that season. It is quite rare in Cuba ®; 

 and as far as Central America and Mexico are concerned, we have Dr. Merrill's authority 

 for its occurrence in the valley of the Eio Grande '^ ; but from this point, if we except 

 Prof. Sumichrast's doubtful reference to the occurrence of this species near Orizaba*, 

 we have no trace of it whatever until we come to Panama, where M'Leannan obtained a 

 single specimen 2, and whence we have recently seen another in the possession of 

 Mons. Boucard, to whom it was sent from Aspinwall. These two specimens are our 

 authority for including Turdus fuscescens in this work. Passing into South America we 

 have only five instances of the occurrence of the species there. Herr von Pelzeln 

 records * that Natterer obtained four specimens in December at San Vicente in Brazil ; 

 and Mr. H. Wickham also shot one at Santarem on the Amazon. This last-named 

 specimen we once had an opportunity of examining. 



3. Turdus swainsoni. 



Brown Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 28 ' ; Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 19 '. 



Turdus swainsoni, Cab., Tsch. Faun. Per. p. 188"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 451 *; Baird, Rev. Am. B. 



p. 19'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 91 "; Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 11' (?) ; 



Baird, Bi-ew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. p. 14'; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 58'. 



* Mem. Best. Soc N. H. i. p. 543. 



