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Bangs and Penard (1921), after considering the confusion in the 

 literature relating to the name of the eastern hermit thrushes, con- 

 cluded that no name that had been proposed could with certainty be 

 considered as referring to that population. They therefore described 

 and named it "faxoni" on the basis of an adult breeding specimen 

 from Shelburne, N.H. Most authorities, including the American 

 Ornithologists' Union (1957), have used this name ever since. Phillips 

 (1962), as noted above, has renewed the old controversy over the 

 applicability to the eastern hermit thrush population of Audubon's 

 nanus. The evidence, however, seems to support the conclusion 

 that Audubon (1839) used the name nanus to refer to a small far- 

 western form. Under the circumstances I prefer to follow well- 

 established current usage and apply the name/craom to the eastern 

 population, which embraces the New Hampshire birds from which 

 the type-specimen was selected. This includes all breeding hermit 

 thrushes, with virtually no geographical variation, from the vicin- 

 ity of Great Slave Lake southeastward to Nova Scotia and Long 

 Island, N.Y. Breeding birds from the latter locality apparently were 

 examined for the first time in the present study. Specimens from west- 

 ern Mackenzie (Hay River, Fort Providence, and Fort Resolution) 

 are somewhat intermediate toward euborius in possessing more gray- 

 ish flanks and slightly paler and more grayish coloration above than 

 breeding birds from the Appalachian Mountains and New England, 

 but in both respects they are closer to the eastern specimens. 



10. Newfoundland hermit thrush: Catharus guttatus cry- 

 mophilus (Burleigh and Peters). — Dark Brownish Olive to Prout's 

 Brown. Medium size, long tarsus: c? (33 specimens), wing 87-98.5 

 (92.1), tail 65-75.5 (69.2), culmen 13-14.5 (13.8), tarsus 29.1-32 

 (30.6), midtoe 15.5-19.5 (17.6); 9 (18 specimens), wing 84-94 (88.3), 

 tail 62-71.5 (66.5), culmen 13-15 (13.8), tarsus 28.6-32.5 (30.4), 

 midtoe 15.5-19.5 (17.3). 



Darker than faxoni; larger and more rufescent on flanks than 

 nanus; longer tarsus, shorter wing, darker and more rufescent than 

 auduboni, sequoiensis, and euborius; longer tarsus, darker and more 

 rufescent than guttatus, vaccinius, and oromelus. 



Breeds from James Bay in central-western Quebec east to southern 

 Labrador, Newfoundland, and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. 



Winters in southeastern, central and central-southern United 

 States from Maryland (Elliot Island, Shadyside, Leonardstown, Port 

 Tobacco, and Powellville), south to Florida (Kissimmee) and west 

 occasionally to central Colorado (one record, west Denver) and 

 central-southern Texas (San Antonio, Sinton, and Harlingen). 



The original description of C. g. crymophilus by Burleigh and 

 Peters (1948), depicting it as darker above than faxoni of the eastern 



