PACIFIC VARIED THRUSH 95 



Mr. Cogswell (MS.) referring to the same general region, says: 

 "Here, the varied thrushes seem fondest of the shady areas under 

 the oaks and sycamores of the semiopen canyons of the foothill mesas, 

 but on December 21, 1941, in Mandeville Canyon, Santa Monica 

 Mountains, I saw two fly out of a section of pure chaparral when 

 frightened by a passing sharp-shinned hawk; in tins case there were 

 no large trees within 200 yards. I also have a record of one bird 

 seen February 19, 1942, in a willow-cottonwood association along Mill 

 Creek in the Prado Basin near Corona, Calif., a distance of some 6 

 or 7 miles from the nearest foothill oak-sycamore association, in 

 which they are most typically found." 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — Western North America. 



Breeding range. — The varied thrush breeds north to northern Alaska 

 (valley of the Kobuk River, probably the vicinity of Alatna, near 

 Fort Yukon, and the Porcupine River below the mouth of the Coleen) 

 and northern Mackenzie (Aklavik). East to the Mackenzie River 

 Valley (Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Fort Good Hope, Fort Norman, 

 near mouth of the Nehami River, and Fort Liard) ; eastern British 

 Columbia (Nelson, Yellowhead Pass, and Kootenay National Park) ; 

 probably extreme western Alberta (Banff); northwestern Montana 

 (Glacier National Park, Fortine, and Swan Lake); northern Idaho 

 (Clark Fork, Coeur d'Alene, and St. Joe National Forest); eastern 

 Washington (mountains near Spokane and near Dayton) ; northeastern 

 Oregon (Powder River Mountains) and the Cascades of western 

 Oregon to north-western California (mouth of Redwood Creek, 

 Humboldt County, Eureka, and Peanut, Trinity County) . South to 

 northwestern California (Trinity and Humboldt Counties). West 

 to California (Humboldt and Del Norte Counties) ; western Oregon 

 (in the mountain forests and at Tillamook Bay and Astoria) ; 

 western Washington (Grays Harbor, Tacoma, and Seattle); west- 

 ern British Columbia (Chilliwack, Alta Lake); Vancouver Island 

 (Comox); the Queen Charlotte Islands (Rose Spit and Massett); 

 and Alaska (Forrester Island, Sitka, Nushagak, Bethel, Nulato, and 

 the Kobuk River). 



Winter range. — In winter the varied thrush is found north to south- 

 eastern Alaska (Craig, casually to Wrangell and Juneau; a specimen 

 was taken near Flat in late November 1927); east to southeastern 

 Alaska (Wrangell); southern British Columbia (Okanagan Landing 

 and Edgewood) ; western Washington (Bellingham, Edmonds, Seattle, 

 Tacoma, and Camas) ; western Oregon (Portland, Salem, and Browns- 

 ville) ; extreme western Nevada (Carson) ; central California (Stockton, 



