. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . olor darkei and richer; upper parts brownish oliva-ceous, tending toward raw umber ; top of head and rump browner thanback ; upper tail coverts and tail burnt umber; under parts more buffythan in guttata. Wing: , tail , bill .50, tarsus Distribution. — Pacific coast region, from Washington southward, breed-ing south to Sierra Nevada region ; east in migrations to Nevada and Ari-zona, and south to Lower California and western Mexico. GENUS MERULA.
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . olor darkei and richer; upper parts brownish oliva-ceous, tending toward raw umber ; top of head and rump browner thanback ; upper tail coverts and tail burnt umber; under parts more buffythan in guttata. Wing: , tail , bill .50, tarsus Distribution. — Pacific coast region, from Washington southward, breed-ing south to Sierra Nevada region ; east in migrations to Nevada and Ari-zona, and south to Lower California and western Mexico. GENUS General Characters. — Bill slender and compressed,notched near end ; nostrils wholly exposed ; tail more than3 three times as long as tarsus; under parts spotted inFig. 599. young. KEY TO SPECIES. 1. Outer tail feather with distinct white spot at tip of inner web ; colors darker migratoria, p. 472. r. Outer tail feather without distinct white tip to inner web ; colors paler. propinqua, p. 472. 761. Merula migratoria (Linn.). Robin. Like M. m. propinqua. but outer tail feather with a distinct white spot at tip of inner web ;. Fig. 600. anterior portion ofback usually some-what clouded withblack in fully adultbirds. Length: 9-10,wing , , —Breeds from Alaskaand the arctic coastssoutheast throughHudson Bay regionand the Rocky Moun-tains to Kansas, Vir-ginia, and the Atlan- tic coast; winters from southern Canada southward. Nest and eggs. — Like those of M. m. propinqua. Food. — Crickets, grasshoppers, and other noxious insects, seeds, wildfruit, and berries. 761a. M. m. propinqua Bidgw. Western — Head, wings, and tail blackish ; rest of upper parts slaty 1 A specimen of Merula conjinis was taken by Mr. Emerson at Hay wards, Cal., in Janu-ary, 1882. {Zoe, i. 4G.) THRUSHES, SOLITAIRES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 473 g^ray, black of hind neck sharply contrasting with gray of anterior part ofhack : outer tail feather witho
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