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to the bird until Mr. Sclater described it, in 1859, from specimens obtained near Jalapa, 

 in Mexico, by Senor de Oca, who found a pair on the highland, amongst the pines ^. 

 Other collectors have since met with it in similar localities ^ ^ * ; but it would appear to 

 be a rare species, of very restricted range. It only once came under Prof. Sumichrast's 

 notice, when he found it at Moyoapam ^, in the pine-woods north of the valley of 

 Orizaba, at a height of about 8400 feet above the sea. 



The singular variegated plumage of this species renders it easily distinguishable from 

 all other American species. The only Thrush that at all approaches it in this respect 

 is Turdus ncevius, a bird which Prof. Baird places in a separate subgenus, Hesperocichla, 

 from the rest of the Thrushes, and in which Mr. Seebohm has found characters in 

 common with the Asiatic genus Geocichla and also with Oreocincla. 



16. Turdus infiiscatus. 



Merula infuscata, Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1844, p. 41 '. 



Turdus infuscatus, Scl. & Salv. IMs, 1859, p. 6'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 334', 362', 370 %• Sumi- 

 clirast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543'. 



S niger unicolor, rostro et pedibus flavis. Long, tota 8'7, aJae 4*9, caudse 3-8, rostri a rictu '95, tarsi 1*15. 



(Descr. maris ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 

 $ brunnescene, subtus dilutior, gutture striate, subalaribus rufis; rostro fusoo, pedibus flavis. (Descr. fern. 



ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. P. L. S.) 

 Juv. brunneus, abdomiae dUutiore et fusco maculato, tectricibus alarum fulvo terminatis. (Sp. ex Guatemala. 



Mus. nostr.) 



Edb. Mexico, Jalapa [de Oca^^), Totontepec (Boucard^), mountains of Orizaba (Su- 

 michrast^); Guatemala^, Coban, ridge above S. Geronimo, Quezaltenango {0. S. 



& F. B. a.). 



Turdus infuscatus was originally described by the late Baron Lafresnaye ^, whose type 

 we have examined, from a Mexican specimen ; and several more recent explorers have 

 found it in that country * ^. Prof Sumichrast gives as its habitat, in the State of Vera 

 Cruz ^, the temperate and alpine regions, and says that in the lower part of the alpine 

 and the upper and wooded part of the temperate is the favourite resort of this 

 Thrush. He adds that it is quite common in these localities at the foot of the 

 mountains, at elevations of from 4200 to 8400 feet above the sea. 



In Guatemala it is by no means a common bird ; but we met with it more frequently 

 near Coban, in Vera Paz, than elsewhere. Here it was usually found in the patches 

 of older forest which clothe the summits of the curious conical hills which so abound 

 in this district. A young specimen in our collection most probably came from near 

 Coban, proving that T. infuscatus is a resident species, as we also observed it in 

 November and January, a season at which the bird would not be breeding. Our speci- 

 mens were all obtained near Coban ; for, though we observed this Thrush in the forest 

 of the mountain ridge above San Geronimo, and at Quezaltenango, near enough to 



