438 NOTES ON THE 



on sides of breast pale olivaceous; sides of body tinged same; 

 tibiae white; lower mandibile brownish at tip; lores ashy. 



Length, 7.50; wing, 4.25; tail, 3.20; tarsus, 1.20. 



Habitat, eastern United States to Plains. 



TURDUS ALICIA (Baird). (757.) 

 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. 



This comparatively new species, or newly individualized 

 species, is occasionally metw'th in migration, and may possibly 

 yet be proved to be a summer resident in some localities.* It 

 arrives about the 10th of May and apparently disappears by the 

 20th, at least that is the latest record I have of one obtained 

 almost within the city limits during May of the present year. 

 It may be much more common than my opportunities for know- 

 ing indicate, for it is an exceedmgly shy bird, confining itself 

 while here to thickets, along the borders of groves, and forests 

 of hardwood. I have never been able to assure myself that I 

 have heard its song, notwithstanding its unmistakable charac- 

 ter as given by modern writers. The downwardness of the 

 scale of its song as described by those who are familiar with 

 the species in New England as contrasted with that of T. Pal- 

 lasi, has met my ear on several occasions without being confi- 

 dent of its source. Its observation at so many proximate 

 places in adjoining states seems to justify the expectation that 

 the species will yet be found to be fairly represented in portions 

 of Minnesota. I have had only a single individual in my hands 

 by my own gun yet. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Third quill longest; fourth nearly equal; second slightly 

 longer than fifth. Above nearly pure dark olive-green; sides 

 of head, ashy-gray; chin, throat, under parts and ring around 

 eye, white, purest behind. Sides of throat and across the 

 breast with arrow-shaped spots of dark plumbeous-brown; sides 

 of body and axillaries, dull grayish- olivaceous; tibiae, plumb- 

 eous; legs brown. 



Length, 8; wing, 4.20; tail, 3.20; tarsus, 1.15. 



Habitat, eastern North America west to the Plains. 



*Mt. T. S. Roberts, Mr. J. Angstrum, and a promising young naturalist by the name 

 of H. McCoy, of Merriam Park, have each given me verbal reports of having collected 

 this species in this vicinity. 



