J. G.Keulem ans likh.
TU RD U S T L A V IR O S T R IS
Harihart imp.
TURDUS FLAVIROSTRIS {Swains.).
MAZATLAN THRUSH.
Merula flavirostris, Swains. Phil. Mag. i. p. 369 (1827).
Turdus rufopalliatus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 259.
Turdus flavirostris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847); Salvin & Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer.,
Aves, i. p. 21, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1879 : p t.); Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 225 (1881: pt.).
Turdus joalliatuSy Bp. Consp. i. p. 272 (1850).
T. gutture nigro stria to : pedibus flavis: rostro flavo : dorso cinnamomeo.
T his very distinct species is an inhabitant of Western Mexico from Sonora to Tehuantepec. It was
originally described by Swainson from a specimen supposed to have been obtained by Bullock on the
tablelands of Mexico, but, as Messrs. Salvin and Godman point out (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i.
p. 21), this was probably a mistake.
Mr. W. Lloyd has obtained specimens in the Sierra de Alamos in Sonora, at an altitude of
8000 feet, in May, and these are in the Salvin-Godman Collection. Grayson has recorded the
species from Mazatlan, and the Salvin-Godman Collection contains specimens procured there by
Mr. A. Forrer in December. In the Seebohm Collection there are also many examples of
T. flavirostris obtained by Mr. Forrer at Presidio in Mazatlan in January and again in June.
Mr. Lloyd has met with the species at Zapotlan, in Jalisco, in June (Mus. Salvin-Godman), and
Mr. W. B. Richardson has sent specimens from San Bias (May) and the Sierra de Nayarit (June) in
Tepic (Mus. Salvin-Godman).
Xantus and Grayson found the species on the plains of Colima many years ago (of. Lawrence,
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 266), and Messrs. Salvin and Godman have more recently received
specimens from Mr. Richardson, obtained in the same locality in January, while Mr. Lloyd has procured
it at Santiago, in Colima, in June. Admiral Markham met with the species near Acapulco (Mus.
Salvin-Godman), and Mrs. Herbert Smith has procured a young bird at Dos Arroyos, in Guerrero, in
October (Mus. Salvin-Godman). M. Rebouch obtained specimens at San Juan del Rio (Scl. & Salv.
P. Z. S. 1870, p. 550), and in Tehuantepec it has been procured by Xantus, Grayson, and Sumichrast
(Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 11). Ferrari-Perez has also recorded specimens, one of
which is now in the Salvin-Godman Collection, from Chietla, in the Canton de Chiantla, Puebla,
where they were obtained in November and December (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 132).
Grayson describes this species as an inhabitant of woods and gregarious in its habits, and he
says that, in its migrations, it passes from one part of the country to another in quest of the different
kinds of berries which are its chief subsistence.
Adult male. General colour above dark cinnamon-rufous, brighter and more chestnut on the
lesser and median wing-coverts, the greater series slaty-grey, externally washed with cinnamon;
bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills sepia-brown, externally clear slaty-grey, somewhat hoary
on the primaries, the inner secondaries narrowly edged with cinnamon; lower back and rump pale
slaty-grey, with a slight wash of cinnamon; upper tail-coverts darker slaty-grey; tail-feathers black,
externally washed with dark slate-colour; crown of head and hind-neck slaty-grey, but the former
vol. i. ? 2 T