LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 

 THRUSHES, KINGLETS, AND THEIR ALLIES 



ORDER PASSERIFORMES (FAMILIES TURDIDAE AND 



SYLVIIDAE) 



By Arthur Cleveland Bent 



Taunton, Mass. 



Order PASSERIFORMES 

 Family TURDIDAE: Thrushes, Bluebirds, Stonechats, and Solitaires 



TURDUS MUSICUS COBURNI Sharpe 



ICELAND RED-WINGED THRUSH 



CONTEIBUTED BT BERNARD WlLLIAM TUCKER 



HABITS 



The redwing of British ornithologists is an accidental visitor to 

 Greenland. Schi0ler (1926), the eminent Danish authority, in the 

 annotated list of Greenland birds in his great work "Danmarks 

 Fugle," lists the Greenland visitors as definitely of the Iceland race, 

 Arceuthornis musicus coburni (Sharpe), and on geographical grounds 

 this is what would be expected. Dr. J. Reinhardt (1861) recorded two 

 examples, one of which was sent to Dr. Paulsen in 1845, while the other 

 was shot at Frederikshaab, on the west coast, on October 20 of that 

 year and was sent to the Copenhagen Museum, where no doubt it still 

 is. The species is known also from the east coast. Helms (1926) 

 states that Johan Petersen, superintendent of the colony of Angmag- 

 salik, who for many years made observations on the birds occurring 

 there, received three specimens during the period 1894 to 1915. On 

 October 20, 1904, two were shot by the colony. They were flying 

 from one ice floe to another down by the beach, looking for food, and 

 every now and then they made a trip to the shore, where they doubt- 

 less caught sandskippers, small snails, and other prey. They were only 

 slightly shy and were easy to shoot. On October 31, 1906, he received 

 one from a Greenlander who had shot it on the beach. 



