ORDER PASSERES. 29 1 



Family CINCLID^. Dippers. 



Genus CINCLUS Bechstein. 



Cinclus Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl. 1802, 205. Tjrpe, 

 Sturnus cinclus Linn. 



701. Cinclus mezicanus Swains. 

 American Dipper. 



Cinclus mexicanus Swains. Phil. Mag. I. 1827, 368. 

 [B164, C 19, R19, C30.] 

 Geog. Dist. — The mountainous parts of central and western 

 North America, from the Yukon Valley and Unalaska to Guatemala ; 

 east, in the United States, to the eastern base of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Apparently resident throughout its range. 



Family TROG-LODYTICSi. Wrens, Thrashers, etc. 

 Subfamily MIMIN.Si. Thrashers. 



Genus OROSCOPTES Baird. 



Oroscoptes Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 346. Type, Orpheus mon- 

 tanus Towns. 



702. Oroscoptes montanus (Towns.). 

 Sage Thrasher. 



Orpheus montanus Towns. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII. 1837, 



193- 



Oroscoptes montanus Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 347. 



[B 255, C 7, R 10, C I4.J 

 Geog. Dist. — Western United States, from the western part of 

 the Plains (western South Dakota, western Nebraska, and eastern 

 Colorado), north to Montana, west to the Cascades and Sierra 

 Nevada, south into northern Mexico, Lower California, and casually 

 to Guadalupe Island. 



