GEOCICHLA PINICOLA (Sclater). 
MEXICAN GROUND-THRUSH. 
Turdus pæcilopterus, Licht. MSS. in Mus. Berol. (nec Vig.). 
Turdus pinicola, Sclater, P. 7. S. 1859, p. 334. 
Geocichla pinicola, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 179 (1881). 
Ridgwayia pinicola, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 460 (1883). 
С. tectricibus supracaudalibus albis : axillaribus omnino albis. 
Тнів aberrant form of Ground-Thrush appears to have been first known from specimens brought 
by Deppe to the Berlin Museum, where Lichtenstein bestowed on them the name of Turdus 
pecilopterus, which, however, seems never to have been published. In any case this name could 
not have been accepted for the species, as there is already a Turdus paecilopterus described by 
Vigors (P. 2. S. 1831, p. 54) from the Himalayas. The species was fully described by Dr. Sclater 
from examples procured by De Oca at Jalapa in the State of Vera Cruz. 
The subsequent extension of our knowledge of the range of the species has been given in detail 
by Messrs. Salvin and Godman in their * Biologia Centrali-Americana ' (Aves, i. p. 23); but since the 
publication of that work much additional information respecting the distribution of G. pinicola has 
been received, as can be easily recognized from the fine series of skins of the species presented to the 
British Museum by Messrs. Salvin and Godman. 
The following is a list of the specimens in the British Museum, which fully illustrate the range 
of the species :— 
а. Imm. Valley of Mexico (White). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
b. Ad. Valley of Mexico (4. Dorman). » » 
со * QR, Teteleo, Xochimileo, Valley of Mexico, Jan. T 3 
 (Ferrari- Perez). 
e. d ad. Coapa, Tlalpam, Valley of Mexico, Feb. (F.-P.). ў ES 
Z. dad. Chimalpa, Tacubaya, Valley of Mexico, Jan. 16 Ра 5 
BERN). 
9. d ad. Hacienda Eslava, Tlalpam, Jan. 4 (F.-P.). + g 
h-l. d ad.; m,n. 9 ad. Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Oct. 23 (W. B. D т 
Richardson). ; 
0, p. d 9 ad. Jalapa (De Oca). Sclater Coll. (Types of species.) 
4. 9 ad. Cofre de Perote, Vera Cruz, Хоу. (M. Trujillo). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
r. Ad. Oaxaca (Fenochio). » » 
8. 8 Дау. Amula, Guerrero, 6000 feet, Aug. (Mrs. D. IV. У 2 
Smith). 
Г, и. в; . Q ad.; w. Juv. Sierra Nayarit, Jalisco, 8000 feet, July (ЈУ. B. 5 5 
Richardson). ' 
а. d ad. Sierra Bolaños, Jalisco, Feb. (ЈУ. B. R.). » E 
Besides the localities mentioned in the above list, the species has been found in the Valley of 
Orizaba by Sallé and Sumichrast. The latter met with it once at Moyoapam, at a height of about 
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