. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 32 NORTH AMKRICAN IHRDS. Oreoscoptes montanus, Wwuh. SAOE THBASHER; HOTTKTAIN MOCKEB. Orphetis moiilnnim, , Jour. Aciul. Nat. Sci. I'liilii. VII, ii, 1837, 102. — Am. Birds Aiiifr. II, 1841, 1!U, \A. ux.\xi.\. Tin-ilns mutilmnis, Ari). Oiii. Hiof,'. IV, 1838, 437, 111. iTclxix, lij;. 1. Miinus mon/diiKs, Uonat. ('oiisp. 18r>(l, 2"t!. ( monlHitim, Uaikd, N. .\iii(T. IS.'iS, 347; U«'V. Am. Ii. 1804, 42. — !, r. Z. S. , 340. —III. ratal. LSUl, 8,
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 32 NORTH AMKRICAN IHRDS. Oreoscoptes montanus, Wwuh. SAOE THBASHER; HOTTKTAIN MOCKEB. Orphetis moiilnnim, , Jour. Aciul. Nat. Sci. I'liilii. VII, ii, 1837, 102. — Am. Birds Aiiifr. II, 1841, 1!U, \A. ux.\xi.\. Tin-ilns mutilmnis, Ari). Oiii. Hiof,'. IV, 1838, 437, 111. iTclxix, lij;. 1. Miinus mon/diiKs, Uonat. ('oiisp. 18r>(l, 2"t!. ( monlHitim, Uaikd, N. .\iii(T. IS.'iS, 347; U«'V. Am. Ii. 1804, 42. — !, r. Z. S. , 340. —III. ratal. LSUl, 8, no. 3(1. — C'ooi-Ki!, HiiiKs Cal. 1, 12. Sp. Char. First quill rather shorter than thu sixth. Tail .slij;htly {iradiiatiMl. Above bro\;ih; each feather obsoletely darker in the centre. Beneath dull white, thickly marked with triiui^'iitar , excej)! on tiie under tail-eoverts and around the aims, whieli rejrions are linj;ed with Winur-eoverts and (|\iilis edfjed with dull white. Tail feathers lirown ; the outer edire<l, and all (exee])t, , the middle) tipped witli white. I,enjrlh, S inches; win^', 'i; ; tarsus, y<iiiiii/. Similar, hut .spots lieneath less sharply defmed, and the upper parts quite }' streaked with <lusky. IIaii. Rocky Mountains of Uniteil States, west to raci(i<", south to Cape St. Lucas. The careful ohservatiniis of IVfr. Iioliert I!idj,nvay have led him to tlie con- viction that the name bestowed upon this .' uecios of " ^loiintain Mocking- liird " is doubly a It not at all imitative in its notes, and it is almost exclusively a resident of the ar- temisia i)lains. It seems to be chiefly confined to the great central plateau of North America, from jMexico almost to Washington Territory. Specimens have been procured i'rom Cape St. Lucas, tiie Lower Coh)rado, Mexico, and Texas, on tlie south, and Xuttall met with it nearly its far iio
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