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being found below 5000 feet, both near Duenas and at Tactic in Vera Paz, and also 

 occurring in some numbers in the pine-forests of the summit of the Volcan de Fuego, 

 as high as 12,000 feet, and in the main Cordillera above Totonicapam at a height of 

 10,500 feet. It does not seem to be found only in one class of forest ; for the plains 

 near Duefias, where Ipomoea murocoides abounds, the oak-forests of the volcano, and 

 the pine-forests of the upper parts, the pine-tracts of Quezaltenango and Totoni- 

 capam, and the forests it frequents in Vera Paz are each very different in character. 

 It, however, is not so much an inhabitant of the belt of dense forest of mixed trees 

 which surrounds the volcano between 7000 and 10,000 feet ; and it is altogether absent 

 from the forests of the hotter parts of Guatemala, which lie below 4000 feet. 



We never found Turdus rufitorques breeding ; but as birds were observed about 

 Duenas and Quezaltenango in the month of August, it is probable that they had 

 built in the vicinity of those places. It is not, however, a migratory species, except, 

 perhaps, in a very limited sense. 



The habits of T. rufitorques recall those of T. merula. It is rather shy, generally 

 keeping out of gunshot. Its powers of song are not remarkable, and are certainly 

 inferior to those of T. grayi. 



The curious rufous ring which surrounds the neck of this Thrush recalls the similar 

 feature in the plumage of T. albicincta of the Himalayas. The American bird, how- 

 ever, is of not nearly so robust a form as the Asiatic species; and there are other 

 differences between them. 



15. Turdus pinicola. 



Turdus pcecilopterus, Licht. Mus. Berol. (fide Sclater), nee Nomencl. Av. p. 35. 

 Turdus pinicola, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 334 \ 363', 1860, p. 350', 1864, p. 173' j Cat. Am. B. p. 6, 

 pi. 1 '; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543 \ 



(S fusco-niger, capitis et dorsi plumarum scapis brunneis ; alarum tectricibus majoribus fumido albo late lim- 

 batis, primariorum parte basali extus et intus macula magna alba occupata, apicibijs ' eorum et secunda- 

 riorum grisescenti-albo terminatis ; prim.ariis tertio, quarto et quinto extus macula alba apicem versus 

 ornatis, secundariis medialiter albo extus marginatis ; Cauda nigra, hujus tectricibus superioribus et rectri- 

 cum apicibus albis ; abdomine cum crisso et tectricibus alarum inferioribus albis ; rostro nigro, pedibus 

 flavis. Long, tota 8'5, alse 5-3, caudse 3"4, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. exempl. ex Mexico. 

 Mus. nostr.) 

 $ brunnescentior, coloribus dUutioribus, gutture et pectore toto brunneis colore paUidiore marmoratis. (Descr. 



fem. ex Jalapa. Mus. P. L. S.) 

 Juv. supra capitis et dorsi plumis late ochraceis, dorsi postici ferrugineis ; subtus flavidus plumis singulis nigro 

 marginatis. (Descr. juv. ex Oaxaca. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Mexico, Jalapa {de Oca^), Orizaba [Salle ^), valley of Mexico (White ^, le 

 Strange), Moyoapam {Sumichrast ^), Oaxaca {Fenochio). 



Though specimens of Turdus pinicola seem to have been in the Berlin Museum for 

 some years, under the unpublished name otT. pcecilopterus, no published name was given 



