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mage, and according to Mr. Peale, was " killed ^lear Valparaiso, on the 

 twenty-eighth of Maj, whilst actively gleaning for insects among some 

 low bushes ; it was alone, and excepting a faint stzee, stzee, silent." 



3. Family TURDID^. 

 1. Genus MERULA, Ray. 

 1. Merula migratoria [Linn.). — The American Eobin. 



Turdus migi-atorkis, Linn. Syst. Nat, I, p. 811 (1766). 



Cat. Car. I, Plate XXIX ; Buff. PI. Enl. 556, fig. 1 ; Wilson, Am. 

 Orn. I, Plate II; And. B. of Am. Plate CXXXI; oct. ed. Ill, Plate 

 CXLII. 



Specimens of both sexes of this bird from Oregon, are similar in all 

 respects to those of the Eastern United States. It is brought too in 

 nearly all collections from California, and in the " Voyage en Islaude 

 et an Greenland sur la Corvette la Recherche," Zoology, p. 157 (Paris, 

 1851), this species is stated to be common in Iceland, in the summer. 

 Its northern and western range is therefore very extensive, and it ap- 

 pears, in fact, to inhabit the whole of North America, south of the 

 limit of perpetual frost. 



2. Merula falcklandica {Quo?/ and Qaimarcl). 



Turdus falcMandicus, QuoY and GtAIMARD, Voy. Uranie, Zoology, p. 104 (1824). 

 Turdus magellanicus, King, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I, p. 14 (1830). 



This bird is one of several of South America which more or less 

 resemble in form and general appearance the common bird of North 

 America immediately preceding. It appears to inhabit Western South 

 America from Peru to Cape Horn, and is stated to be an abundant 

 species. 



Respecting this bird, Mr. Peale observes : 



" The young of this species was found at Orange Bay, Tierra del 



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