. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 32 NORTH AMKRICAN JJIUDS. Oreoscoptes montanus, r>AiRi). 8A0E THSA8HEB; MOUHTAIH MOCXEB. Orpheus 7nf>v fa Hits, Towxsexd, Jour. Aiatl. Nat. Sri. \*\\i\ VII, ii, 1837, 192.—Arn. Birds Anur. II, 1841, 194, pi. Titr>h(s inontmim, Arn. Orn. Bio;,'. IV, 1838, 437, pi. rcflxix, fig. 1. Mhints viuahinus, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 276. Oratscoptt's iiionf4iniis, Bviun, Binls N. Ainer. 1858, 347; Rt*v. Am. B. 18
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 32 NORTH AMKRICAN JJIUDS. Oreoscoptes montanus, r>AiRi). 8A0E THSA8HEB; MOUHTAIH MOCXEB. Orpheus 7nf>v fa Hits, Towxsexd, Jour. Aiatl. Nat. Sri. \*\\i\ VII, ii, 1837, 192.—Arn. Birds Anur. II, 1841, 194, pi. Titr>h(s inontmim, Arn. Orn. Bio;,'. IV, 1838, 437, pi. rcflxix, fig. 1. Mhints viuahinus, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 276. Oratscoptt's iiionf4iniis, Bviun, Binls N. Ainer. 1858, 347; Rt*v. Am. B. 1864, 42. — Sclatek, r. Z. S. 1859, 340. — Ib. Catal. 1861, 8, no. 30. — CooPEU, Birds t'sil. I, 12. Pp. (^iiar. First quill rathor shorter than the sixth. Tail slijjhtly graduated. Above brownish-ash; each feather obsoletely darker in the centre. Beneath dull white, thickly marked with trian<rular spots, except on the under tail-coverts and around tlie , which regions are tinged with yellowish-brown. Wing-coverts an<l (piills edged with dull white. Tail feathers brown ; the outer edge<I, antl all (except, perhaps, the middle) tipped with white. Length, 8 inches; wing, '); tail. ; tarsus, , Young. Similar, but spots beneath less sharply defnied, and the upjxT parts quite conspicuously streaked with dusky. IIab. Rocky Mountains of United States, west to Pacific, south to Cape St. Lucas. The careful observations of ^fr. Uohert Ridgway have led him to the con- viction tliat the name upon this species of " Mountain Mocking- Bird " is doubly a misnomer. It is not at all imitative in its notes, and it is almost exclusively a resident of the ar- temisia ])lains. It seems to be chieflv confined to the great central plateau of North America, from Mexico almost to Washington Teiritory. Specimens have been procured from Cape St. Lucas, the Lower Colorado, Mexico, and Texas, on the south, and Xuttall met with it nearly as far north as
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