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p. 190) says: " The notes given by me in ttie lower five lines 

 of this page (Ornith. Cal., p. 4) belong properly to the next 

 species [T. ustulatas], as it is scarcely probable that any of 

 this [species] remain ia the lower country of California, or 

 even in the mountains in summer, unless above an elevation 

 of 8,000 feet, as does its Rocky Mountain representative, 

 var. auduhoni (Baird). The song of that, and of the east- 

 ern race, var. pallasii Cab., being described as resembling 

 that of the wood thrush (T. musteUnns), with which I am 

 familiar. I am sure that I never heard it in the Sierra Ne- 

 vada up to 8,000 feet altitude, nor in the forests of Wash- 

 ington Territory, and that of var. nanus cannot be very dif- 

 ferent. It is the winter thrush of California, common from 

 September to May." ''I was misled in giving T. nanus as 

 the common summer thrush of California, both by its having 

 been given by all previous authors as the only small brown 

 thrush found in the State (ustulatus being limited to the 

 north)," etc. I have not seen the species at nor south of 

 San Diego later than April 8; this was at San Diego in 

 the very wet, backward spring of 1884. Mr. Blaisdell saw 

 it at Poway as late as April 12, 1885. My latest Stockton 

 record is April 25, 1879, when snow was low down in the 

 mountains. Mr. Proud last saw it at Chico April 28, 1884. 

 Dr. J. C. Merrill (Auk, Oct., 1888, p. 365), took a female at 

 Fort Klamath April 29, but did not again see the species 

 until May 11, when after a few days of cold weather it' was 

 abundant. Mr. A. W. Anthony first saw it in the spring of 

 1885, at Beaverton, Oregon, on April 18. Dr. Williams 

 noted its arrival at Fort Walla Walla April 27, 1885, and 

 that it was common by May 15. Young were seen June 30. 

 Observations bearing on its southward migration are the 

 following: Mr. Henshaw (Report Wheeler's Survey, 1879), 

 says: "By the last of August it was found numerous 

 along the foothills of the Cascade Range of Oregon " 

 (east slope). I have noticed its arrival at the summit of 

 the Sierra Nevada, lat. 39° 20' N., September 22, in 1878, 

 September 25, 1885, and have seen a few in the Sacra- 



