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calls, and although iu the regi(3n for nearly a week I did not 

 hear them actually sing. 



Tn the same locality I frequently heard the full song of 

 T. ustuhdns. 



Near Canonville, Oregon, June 11, 1883, I shot a small 

 thrush in worn plumage, which appears to be T. seqiioiensis 

 (No. 1008, coll. of W. E. B.); the label is marked " nanmr 

 in the handwriting of an Eastern authority, the skin being 

 one of a small collection, which I carried East the following- 

 year, and at that time such specimens were sap]:>osed to be 

 faded examples of the dwarf hermit thrush. 



Mr. W. W. Price has recently taken two birds in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains, which are by no means typical of 

 T. seqiioiensis, and seem to be intermediate between T. 

 seqiioiensis and T. aonalaschhe . In my opinion T. seqiioiensis 

 will be found to merge into T. aonalaschJice when sufficient 

 material is brought together, and consequently will stand 

 as Turdns aoncdaschJae seqiioiensis (Belding). 



The Big Tree thrush appears to have no close relationship to 

 T. a. audiiboni, further than being one of the rufous tailed 

 group, to which belong T. aonalaschhe, T. aoualciscJikce aii- 

 diihoni, T. aonalascJikre pallasii and T. cionalascJihe seqiioi- 

 ensis. 



Mr. E. C. McGregor has searched in the Santa Cruz 

 Mountains for T. a. seqiioiensis without success, but it un- 

 doubtedly occurs there and is the same that I collected in 

 Montery County and the one which Mr. W. A. Cooper re- 

 ported as " Breeding in the redwoods of Santa Cruz 

 County." 



Mr. William Proud, of Chico,lias looked for the Big Tree 

 thrush near there, and in a letter to Mr. Belding writes: " I 

 heard the song of a thrush decidedly ditferent from H. iistii- 

 lataf' the song ' ' consisted of seven notes; the higher notes 

 had a guttural sound, similar to some of those of H. 

 ustidata.'' 



In a letter dated August 4, 1889, Mr. Belding writes that 

 he has " found a few of the Big Tree thrushes at the Sum- 



