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interest to record the following specimens in the present collection: 

 Uniontown, May 10, male and female ; 6 miles northwest of Branden- 

 burg, May 3, adult female; 2,800 feet elevation on Log Mountain, 

 7 miles west of Middlesboro, September IT, adult male and immature 

 female. 



HYLOCICHLA MINIMA MINIMA (Lafresnaye) : Gray-cheeked Thrush 



The four specimens obtained were collected at Mount Vernon on 

 October 1 and 3 and on Log Mountain, near Middlesboro, on Septem- 

 ber 25 and 28. These birds, all males, are representative of the larger, 

 northern form of this bird as indicated by their wing measurements, 

 which are 98.5, 99.8, 102.5, and 102.9 mm. 



According to recent studies by George J. Wallace ' the type specimen 

 of Lafresnaye's Turdus minimus instead of being the smaller Bick- 

 nell's thrush as identified some years ago by Bangs and Penard (whose 

 statement was accepted for the fourth edition of the A. O. U. Check- 

 list) is in reality the larger, northern bird currently recognized in the 

 check-list as H. m. allciae. Lafresnaye's type, according to Wallace, 

 has a wing measurement of 99 mm., which places it clearly with the 

 larger bird, an opinion with which J. L. Peters (in litt.) agrees. 

 Under these circumstances therefore the gray-cheeked thrush is to be 

 known as Hylocichla minima minima. 



HYLOCICHLA FUSCESCENS FUSCESCENS (Stephens) : Veery 



On Black Mountain, Harlan County, the veery is a common breed- 

 ing bird at elevations ranging from 3,800 to 4,100 feet. Four speci- 

 mens were secured here on June 21, 23, and 30. 



HYLOCICHLA FUSCESCENS SALICICOLA Ridgway: Willow Thrush 



An adult male of the willow thrush, differing from the veery in 

 darker dorsal color and darker spots on the breast, was taken in migra- 

 tion near Uniontown on May 10. 



SIALIA SIALIS SIALIS (Linnaeus) : Eastern Bluebird 



Distributed widely, specimens were obtained as follows: In the 

 isolated sector of Fulton County, south of New Madrid, Mo., separated 

 by a loop of the Mississippi from the rest of Kentucky, June 1 ; Can- 

 ton, November 2; South Carrollton, October 18; Waverly, May 12; 

 Brandenburg, April 22 and 29 ; Roundhill, November 11 ; Brownsville, 

 November 8; Burlington, October 11; Mount Vernon, October 3; 

 Quincy, July 11. Young in spotted plumage, recently from the nest, 

 were secured at Waverly on May 12 and at 4,150 feet on Black Moun- 

 tain near Lynch on June 30. 



^BickneU's thrush, its taxonomy, distribution, and life history. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist, vol. 41, No. 6, Jan. 1939, pp. 238-242. 



