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heard; it serves as an alarm, a challenge for a fight, or as an assembly call. 

 The flight is singularly rapid and direct, but rarely more than a few score 

 yards. 



192. Mimocichla schistacea Baird. 



This eastern Cuban Thrush, having a white and not a rich buff belly, 

 is so distinct from its occidental ally that I believe it should stand as a full 

 species. I have seen no intcrgrades, and in every locality in which I have 

 collected or observed, one or the other bird was present and was of typically 

 pure stock. Except for its being perhaps a bit more fond of the forests, this 

 bird does not differ in customs from M. rubripes rubripes. 



193. Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni (Tschudi). 

 Olive-backed Thrush. 



A rare accidental migrant. 



194. Hylocichla minima aliciae (Baird). 

 Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



Another excessively rare straggler. 



195. Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin). 

 Wood Thrush. 



Observed on a few occasions in the beginning of October and in April. 

 Gundlach had seen it near Havana, Cardenas and Santiago de Cuba. 



