Gen. Planesticus, Bonap.

Char. - Bill much as in Turdus, usually pale-colored, and, perhaps, slightly more compressed; 2nd quill sub-equal to the 5th, shorter than 3rd and 4th ; outer webs of 3rd, 4th, and 5th quills much emarginate ; toes more unequal, the middle toe more elongate, and the laterals short.

The group, formerly separated, without a generic name, by Bonaparte, under the  title of Turdi erratici, may be said to be intermediate to the Blackbirds and the true  spotted Thrushes

They generally have the plumage more colored in masses, but spotted on the breast in a few, and they are said to be more gregarious and migratory than the true Thrushes. Gray, in his last list of genera, makes Bonaparte's genus synonymous with Cichlopsis of Cabanis; but, as he gives Turdus aurantius, Gmelin, from the West Indies as the type, I shall here retain the Prince's name.