330 SOME UNITED STATES BIRDS, NEW TO SCIENCE. 
returned the specimen, saying it was the female of his var. Palmeri. 
This puzzled me, for I knew of no such sexual differences in this 
genus as the specimen presented in comparison with var. Palmeri; 
but presuming, of course, that he knew his own species better than 
I did, I felt obliged to rest on what he told me, though I was dis- 
satisfied, and in penning p. 351 of the Key, with the specimen be- 
fore me, refrained from alluding to the (supposed) female of var. 
Palmeri, concluding to await developments. I wrote to Lt. Ben- 
St. Lucas Mocking-thrush (natural size) 
dire, who replied at once that the bird was an entirely distinct 
species, laying a very different egg, and having somewhat dissimilar 
habits ; and he finally settled the case by sending me a male skin, 
precisely like the original female specimen, together with sev eral 
of both sexes of var. Palmeri, all alike different from the new bird. 
A glance at figure 69, as compared with figure 68, will show that 
Bendire’s Thrush,* as it may be appropriately named, has a very 
* Harpor' hynchus Bendiret eg me 8. (Fig. 69. E — than a sre 
seg stout at base, very ver 0: only 
i Bei paaa e. Tarsus a little longer “than t e mi iddle 
es :—3d and 4th about equal and longest, 5th and 6th posi diiy Shorter, 
of, alte to 7th, 1st in the closed wing Tail litt nasi 
longer ae saa > wings, eg rounded. Male. Entire sp parts, including upper 
surfa ith narrow, faintly rusty 
satan ve Petipa di ' and equally aye bee whitish tipping — 
tail feathers. No m xillary nor auricular 8 treaking; no markings about the head eX 
: cepting some page vague speckling on the cheeks. Under parts prowni degen 
— Dag a on the belly oat throat, more decidedly pada pce on the 
er a marked wit ara mall arrow-head 
maces of the =e of the back. light colored at base below. a about 92 
inches; wing 4; tail misc bill I chord of culmen) kit bill pa n gape) 1°12; tarsus (in 
front) 125; middle toe 112. Female not distinguishable from the male ( 
