142 GRINNELL, T-wo Races of the Varied Thrush. 



r Auk 



LApril 



ured one inch in diameter at tliis point. Just clear of the nest 

 on the lower side a twig one half an inch in diameter slopes away 

 from the nest but does not support it in any way. The end of 

 the branch was brol<en off, as often occurs with the tulip tree, 

 and the nest was placed near this end, 15 feet out from the tree 

 and 48 feet 6 inches up from ground. There was but one branch 

 growing lower on this tree and it was on the other side, so that 

 there was a clear space between the nest and the ground. The 

 nest would answer in every particular for the original of the one 

 described on page 360 of the October, 1900, number of 'The 

 Auk,' collected in western Ontario by Mr. W. E. Saunders, whose 

 brother was with me when I first identified this species. 

 Auk, XVIII, April.. 1901, - )>' iSJ-l'i^ 



TWO RACES OF THE VARIED THRUSH. 



BY JOSEPH GRINNELL. 



Hesperocichla naevia naevia {Gmelin) Ridgway. 



Turduhtmvius Gmelin, Svstema Naturae, Tom. I, 1788, p^7- 

 Hesferochn^nrnvia Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. MusyTol. Ill, 1880, 



^'^Tyfe, ? ad., N^Na22, coll. J. G., Sitka, Alaska, h^ly 2, 1896; collected 

 by J. Grinnell. \, / 



Z>.scr.^^^-«»-Back, Vapulars and rump^stre ; upper tail-coverts 

 brightening into vandyke>;own,; upper/^u-face of tail dark Prout's 

 brown ; top of head and cer>fc dark mifmmy brown abruptly outlined 

 posteriorly against the color otNackf Dark parts of outer surface of 

 closed wing seal brown ; tips of/l^ater and middle wmg-coverts, and 

 spot composed of outer webs o|4Hma>i^s near their base, tawny ochrace- 

 ous ; edging of outer webs oT terminal thh^l of primaries and secondaries 

 hazel. Foreneck tawnyy^ightest laterally malar region; lores and 

 auriculars same as toa/<« head, perhaps slightly>;ay ish ; feathers of aunc- 

 ulars with narrow o«^hi-aceous shaft-streaks ; longituHmal stripe from above 

 eye along uppe.^Zigin of auriculars,.and spot on \o^&^y<^\KA ochraceous ; 

 complete pe^foral band raw umber; remainder of u,>d^ parts poste- 

 rior fronypectoral band tawny ochraceous; feathers ol sides with 

 ■ cresce.ji<haped tips of light sepia; flanks nearly uniform lighNepia with 

 a por&iifible raw umber tinge ; middle of belly white with a tahit butty 



