BIRDS TURDIDAE — TURDUS NAEVIUS. 
List of specimens. 
219 
Wellington, D. 0. 
Independence, Mo 
Fort Riley, K. T.. 
Republican Fork. 
do 
Mo. R. Fort Pierre. . 
Blackbird Hill 
10 miles nortb of Yel- 
low Stone. 
Black Hills 
Fort Mass. N. M 
F"rt Steilucoom 
Fort Vancouver. 
Bodega, Cal.... 
Petaluma, Cal . . 
SaeramenloY.il ley, Cal 
Fort Tejon, Cal 
Fort Yuma, Cal 
Mimbres to Rio Grande 
Mexico 
Orig. Collected by- 
No. 
April 11,1845 S. F. Baird 
Nov. 10,1842 do 
April 13,1844 do 
July 15,1844 do 
Wm.Hutton 
June 20, 1857 Wm. M. Magravv 
Oct. 20,1856 
Oct. 21,1856 
May 20 
July - 
Aug. 3,1 
Mar. 30,1 
Dr. Hammond , 
Lieut. Bryan. .. 
Lieut. Warren. 
Lieut. Bryan. 
Dr. Peters. .. 
Dr. Suckley . 
Feb. 3,1854 
Jan. —,1855 
Lieut. Trowbridge.. . 
E. Samuels 
R. D. Cutts 
Lieut. Williamson.. 
J. Xantus de Vesey. 
Lieut. Williamson. 
Dr. Henry 
J. Gould 
386 W. S. Wood . 
390 do 
Dr. Hayden.. 
do 
do 
199 ! W. S. Wood. 
Dr. Suckley. 
Dr. Cooper.., 
T. H. Szabo. 
Dr. (Ieermann. 
10.58 
9.75 
10.25 
10.12 
9.50 
9.12 
16.25 
16.25 
16.50 
5.16 
5.33 
5.50 
5 25 
5.75 
Iris brown, bill 
and feet black. 
TUKDUS (IXOREUS 1 ) NAEVIUS, Gmelin. 
Varied Thrush. 
Turdus naevius, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 817.— Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 10 ; pi. Ixvi.— Audubon, Orn. 
Biog. IV, 1838, 489 : V, 1839, 284 ; pi. 369 and 433.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 22 ; pi. 143.— 
Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 271.— Cabot, Jour. Bost. Soc. N. H. Ill, 1848, 17. (Spec, shot near 
Boston.)— Lawrence, Annals N. Y. Lyc. V, June, 1852, 221. (Spec, shot near New York.) — 
Newberry, Zool. Cal. and Or. Route, 81 ; Rep. P. R. 11. Stirv. VI, iv, 1857. 
Orpheus naevius, Rich, List, 1837. 
Ixoreus naevius, Bonap. Notes Orn. Delattre, in Comptes Rendus, XXVIII, 1854, 269. 
Orpheus 77ieruloides, Rich. Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 1831, 187 ; pi. xxxviii. 
Sp. Ch. — Fourth quill longest ; third and fifth a little shorter ; second much longer than sixth. Tail nearly even ; the lateral 
feather shorter. Above, rather dark bluish slate ; under parts generally, a patch on the upper eyelids continuous with a stripe 
behind it along the side of the head and neck, the lower eyelids, two bands across the wing coverts and the edges of the quills, 
in part, rufous orange brown ; middle of belly white. Sides of the head and neck continuous with a broad pectoral transverse 
band, black. Most of tail feathers with a terminal patch of brownish white. Bill black. Feet yellow. Female more olivaceous 
above ; the white of the abdomen more extended ; the brown beneath paler ; the pectoral band obsolete. Length, 9.75 inches ; 
wing, 5.00 ; tail, 3.90 ; tarsus, 1.25. 
Hab. — Pacific coast North America. Accidental on Long Island and near Boston. 
This strongly marked species in general appearance bears a close resemblance to the American 
robin, but is readily distinguished by its coloration. In addition to the characters already given, 
it may be stated that the axillars are plumbeous, with a white patch at the base ; the under 
wing coverts plumbeous, but broadly tipped with white. There is also an obscure whitish patch 
1 Ixoreus, Bonaparte, Notes Orn. Delattre, 1854, 26. (Comptes Rendus, XXVIII, 1854.) 
