TURDUS PALLASI, Cabanis. 
EASTERN HERMIT-TH RUSH. 
Turdus solitarius (nec Linn.), Wilson, Amer. Orn. v. p. 95 (1812). 
Turdus minor (nec Gm.), Bp. Journ. Philad. Acad. iv. p. 33 (1824). 
Merula solitaria, Swains. & Richards. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Aves, p. 184 (1831), pl. xxxv. (err. pro 
tab. xxxvii.). 
Turdus nanus, Audub. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 201, pl. 419 (1839). [Cf. Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. iii. p. 2 (1880).] 
Turdus guttatus (nec Pall.), Cab. in Tschudi, Faun. Peruan. p. 187 (1845). 
Turdus pallasii, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1847, p. 305. 
Turdus guttatus pallasi, Ridgw. Orn. 40th Parallel, p. 395 (1877). 
Turdus (Hylocichla) pallasi, Coues, B. Colorado Valley, p. 20 (1878). 
Turdus aonalaschke райазі, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 1 (1880). 
Hylocichla unalaschke pallasi, Ridgw. Proc. U.S, Nat. Mus. iii. p. 166 (1880). 
Turdus unalasce nanus, Coues, Check-1. N. Amer. B. p. 24 (1882). 
Hylocichla pallasi, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 463 (1883). 
Turdus nanus, Bicknell, Auk, i. p. 131 (1884). 
T. minor: remige secundo quintum haud «quante: supracaudalibus rectricibusque rufis, minimé dorso con- 
coloribus: rostro crassiusculo: subalaribus pallidé fulvis, axillaribus quoque externe pallidé fulvescentibus 
vel albidis. 
Тнів constitutes the eastern race of the Hermit-Thrushes, and the range is given by Mr. Ridgway, іп 
his latest edition of the ‘Manual of North American Birds, as follows:—'* Eastern North America, 
breeding from the northern United States northward, and wintering from about 40” to the Gulf 
Coast." In Europe it is said to have occurred in Heligoland, in Germany, and in Italy. 
The breeding-range of this Hermit-Thrush appears to extend over a wide area, for it has been 
found nesting in British Columbia by Mr. Rhoads round Lake La Hache (Auk, x. p. 24). He 
writes as follows :—“ The presence of this species breeding in the region around Lake La Hache, 
British Columbia, as attested by four skins in my collection, further complicates the relationships of 
this genus in Ше North-west. Neither T. auduboni nor T. pallasii were found in any other part of 
British Columbia. I found 7. aonalaschke breeding in the Rocky Mountains at Field. It is 
doubtful if 7. auduboni reaches the forty-ninth parallel. If, as seems probable, it be found that 
Т. pallasii and T. aonalaschke breed indifferently across common ground in the central and Rocky 
Mountain regions of British Columbia, without the intervention of intergrades, a more definite 
separation of the two is necessitated. Owing to the limited series obtained in evidence of this fact, 
а satisfactory conclusion cannot now be reached. Two points at least are established: first, the 
breeding of T. aonalaschke іп the Rocky Mountains; second, the breeding of 7. pallasi west of the 
Rockies and south of the fifty-second parallel." 
The single specimen in the British Museum from the 49th Parallel, obtained during the 
Boundary Survey in 1873, is undoubtedly referable to 7. pallasi, and the following note of Dr. Coues 
(Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, iv. р. 549) appertains to the same bird :—“ The Hermit-Thrush was not 
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