. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . Fio. It7.—Varied Thrush. HESPEROCICHLA. (Gr. fo-nepos, hesperos, Lat. vctperus, of the evening or time of sun-set, hence western ; /ci;fXa, kichla, a kind of thrush : Baird, Rev. A
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . Fio. It7.—Varied Thrush. HESPEROCICHLA. (Gr. fo-nepos, hesperos, Lat. vctperus, of the evening or time of sun-set, hence western ; /ci;fXa, kichla, a kind of thrush : Baird, Rev. Am. B., i, 1864, p. 12.) Ves-per Thrushes. In general, similar to 3Ierula and Turdus proper. Tarsus no longer thanmiddle toe and claw. Bill unnotched ; nostrils partly overhung by feathers which fill the nasalfossae. Sexes subsimilar; $ with a black pectoral collar. One strongly marked species, byone author referred to the extensive Old World genus Geocichla. (Given as a subgenus ofTurdnx in former eds. of the Key.) i TURDID/E — TURDINjE: THRUSHES. 251. Fig. 118. — Varied Thrush, nat. (Ad. uat. del. E. C.) H. naevia. (Lat. nrnvia, spotted, varied; ncevus, a birth-mark. Figs. 117, 118.) VariedThrush. Oregon Robin. Adult (J, iu summer: Entire upper parts dark slate-culur, vary-ing in shade from blackish to plumbe-ous slate, in less perfect specimenswith a slight olive tinge; wings andtail blackish, with more or less ofplumbeous or olive shade, accordingto age of the quills; greater and lesserwing-coverts, tipped with orange-broAvn, forming two cross-bars, andquiUs edged in two or three placeswith the same; quills also white on inner webs, this marking notvisible from the outside; one or sev-eral lateral tail-feathers tipped withwliite. A broad black collar acrossbreast, mounting on side of neck andhead. Stripe behind eye, lower eyelid,an<l under parts orange-brown, gradu-ally giving way to white on lower belly;vent and crissum mixed white, orange-brown, and plumbe
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