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Hylocichla ustulata alma; Oberholser, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 304 (East Humboldt 

 Mts., opposite Franklin Lake, Nevada; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Bishop, N. 

 Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 94 (Yukon basin, Alaska; song). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xviii, 1901, 309 (check list no. 758c). — 

 Osgood, North Am. Fauna, no. 21, 1901, 81 (Hope, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska). 



E\ylodchla] u[stulata] almx Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 

 471.— CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 255. 



Hylocichla ustulatus almse Bishop, Auk, xvii, Apr., 1900, 119 (Yukon Valley; 

 Lake Marsh, Northwest Territory; crit.). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 xvi, 1902, 246 (Sheep Creek, Kenai Peninsula, breeding). 



[Hylocichla] almse Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 142. 



HYLOCICHLA ALICIA ALICI^E (Baird). 

 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. 



Adults in spring and summer. — Above plain olive or grayish olive," 

 the tail slightly browner (sometimes nearly broccoli brown) ; sides of 

 head mostly grayish olive, paling slightly around eyes, but not show- 

 ing a distinct orbital ring, the auricular region narrowly streaked with 

 whitish, the upper portion of lores dull whitish; malar region buffy 

 whitish, tinged with grayish olive and streaked with a darker shade 

 of the same; under parts white, passing on sides and flanks into 

 pale grayish olive or olive-gray, the chest varying from buffy white 

 to pale cream-buff; a broad submalar streak of dusky along each 

 side of throat; chest (sometimes low^er throat also) marked with tri- 

 angular spots of sooty black or grayish dusky, those on lower part 

 of chest more transverse; breast, especially laterally, with transverse 

 spots of light grayish olive or olive-gray; bill dusky, the basal half 

 (more or less) of mandible pale brownish or yellowish (flesh colored 

 or lilac in life); iris dark brown; legs pale brownish (in dried skins), 

 toes darker. 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but more brightly colored, the upper parts varying from 

 olive to olive-sepia, and creamy bufi" of chest and lower throat more 

 pronounced. 



Young. — Above olive, each feather with a subterminal spot or 

 mesial streak '^ of pale grayish buft'y (more fulvous in hue on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts), the feathers (especially on back) sometimes 

 with narrow dusky terminal margins; lesser and middle wing-coverts 

 olive with a central streak (narrowly linear toguttate) of pale yellow- 

 ish bufi^, the greater coverts sometimes indistinctly tipped with buffy ; 

 remiges and rectrices as in adults; sides of head streaked dusky, 

 olive, and pale buffy, but without bufty orbital ring; under parts 

 white, faintly tinged on chest with buff, transversely spotted (except 



a Olive-gray or hair brown in some June and July specimens from Alaska. 



6 These markings vary in shape from a mere shaft-streak to a large subcordate or 

 roundish spot, most distinct on interscapular region, sometimes obsolete on rump and 

 upper tail-coverts. 



