■^914^] THAYER AND BANGS — BIRDS 37 



TURDIDAE. 



Turdus musicus Linn. 



Seven adults, of both sexes, and five sets of eggs, were taken at 

 Nijni Kolymsk, from May 31 to June 9, 1912. 



The Redwing, arrived at Nijni Kolymsk, on May 31, 1912, and 

 soon became common in the forested lowlands. On June 9 the 

 first eggs — two sets of fresh eggs — were found. 



We have carefully compared the skins with a large series of 

 breeding birds from Finmark (as probably also was done by Hartert 

 in the preparation of his 'Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna'), 

 and can detect no differences whatever between Eastern and 

 Western specimens. 



Hylocichla aliciae aliciae Baird. 



Hartert, in 'Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna,' includes Alice's 

 thrush only in a foot-note on page 641, considering it to be a 

 straggler to East Siberia. 



This is not the case. Hylocichla aliciae is one of the Ameri- 

 can species that have extended their breeding range across 

 Bering Strait, and it now breeds west at least to the Kolyma River 

 region. 



At Nijni Kolymsk on June 15, 1912, a nest containing five fresh 

 eggs was found. It was placed on the ground among the stems of 

 young alders. Both parent birds were shot, but unfortunately 

 neither was killed outright, and both got away in the dense alder 

 thicket and could not be found. The eggs are in the Thayer 

 Museum, and are absolutely characteristic. The male was singing 

 its peculiar song. This was the only nest found by Mr. Koren, and 

 the only birds he saw were the pair belonging to it, but he heard 

 the song of Alice's thrush in several different places, and it is a song 

 that cannot be mistaken, by one who knows it as well as Koren 



