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Bering Sea — St. Lawrence Island, May 26. Siberia — Nijni Kolymsk, 

 June 8. 



Some late dates of fall departure are: Bering Sea — St. Paul Island, 

 September 9. Alaska — Nome, September 8. British Columbia — 

 Atlin, September 1. Alberta — Athabaska Landing, September 12. 

 Manitoba — Churchill, September 6. North Dakota — Fargo, October 



4. Minnesota — Minneapolis, October 1. Iowa — Iowa City, Octo- 

 ber 16. Michigan — Ann Arbor, October 7. Ontario — Point Pelee, 

 October 9. Ohio — Columbus, October 6. Mississippi — Ariel, Octo- 

 ber 9. Texas — Cove, October 18. Quebec — Hatley, September 24. 

 Maine — Phillips, September 20. Massachusetts — Harvard, October 



5. New York — Astoria, October 23. Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, 

 October 16. District of Columbia — Washington, October 24. North 

 Carolina — Weaverville, October 28. Georgia — Athens, October 18. 

 Alabama' — Greensboro, October 20. Cuba — Habana, October 21. 

 British Honduras — Toledo, November 13. Costa Rica — Tambor, 

 November 2. Panama — Cocoplum, November 12. 



Some early dates of fall arrival are: Minnesota — St. Paul, August 

 31. Illinois — Chicago, August 26. : Louisiana — Thibodaux, Sep- 

 tember 21. North Carolina — Statesville, September 4. Georgia — 

 near Atlanta, September 9. Florida — Princeton, September 19. 

 Cuba — Habana, October 16. Costa Rica — Rio Sicsola, October 4. 



Casual records. — A specimen was collected at Godthaab, Green- 

 land, in June 1845; and another in south Greenland in August 1852, 

 and one in postjuvenal plumage was collected on the south fork of 

 Cave Creek, in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, on September 

 11, 1932. 



Egg dates. — Alaska: 17 records, June 6 to July 8; 9 records, June 

 15 to June 23, indicating the height of the season. 



Labrador: 5 records, June 17 to June 28. 



Manitoba: 26 records, June 11 to June 30; 13 records, June 19 to 

 June 22. 



New Hampshire: 5 records, June 17 to June 28. 



HYLOCICHLA MINIMA BICKNELLI Ridgway 

 BICKNELL'S THRUSH 

 Contributed by George John Wallace 

 HABITS 



In 1881 E. P. Bicknell surprised American ornithologists by the 

 unexpected discovery of a new thrush, apparently breeding in the 

 Catskills, close to the stamping grounds of many of the foremost 

 birdmen of that time. Specimens of the new form were submitted 



