340 BULLETIN 15 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



HYLOCICHLA MINIMA MINIMA (Lafresnaye) 

 BICKNELL'S THRUSH 



Tardus minimus Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1848, p. 5 (Bogota). 



Turdus aliciae, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, pp. 17-18 

 (Puerto Plata, specimens) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 122 (Dominican 

 Republic). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 34 (listed). — Cherrie, 

 Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1S96, p. 9 (Aguacate; Santo Domingo City, 

 specimens). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 366 (Sanchez, 

 specimen). 



Hylocichla, Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 98 (Haiti). 



Hylocichla aliciae aliciae, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 4, 1907, p. 60 

 (Santo Domingo). 



Hylocichla aliciae bicknelli, A. O. U. Check-List, ed. 3, 1910, p. 360 (Haiti). 



Hylocichla minima subsp.?, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 1928, p. 509 (Morne Malanga). 



Winter visitant from North America ; rare. 



Thrushes of this type were first reported by Cory who secured 

 specimens near Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, taking a female, 

 December 14, a male December 16, 1882, and a second female January 

 6, 1883. Cherrie collected two males near Aguacate February 22 and 

 25, and one at Santo Domingo City May 1, 1895. Verrill collected 

 one at Sanchez. 



In March, 1921, Swales and Richmond examined four specimens 

 loaned by the Field Museum, including the male and female taken 

 by Cory at Puerto Plata in December, 1882, and the two males 

 secured by Cherrie at Aguacate in February 1895 and found them to 

 be Bicknell's thrush. The three remaining skins listed have not 

 been seen and may possibly include representatives of Alice's thrush. 

 All records for the species are included here, however, on the basis 

 of material actually identified. With regard to the female taken 

 January 8, 1883, at Puerto Plata it may be noted that Cory gives the 

 wing as 3.80 inches (equivalent to 96.5 mm.) and the other two from 

 the same locality as 3.75 and 3.78 inches respectively. On this basis 

 it seems probable that the third bird like the others which have been 

 seen is Bicknell's thrush. Wetmore has examined the Verrill speci- 

 men from Sanchez in the Tring Museum and finds it to be this form. 



Bond reports a thrush of unknown form from Morne Malanga, 

 Haiti, January 19, 1928. This is probably the specimen recorded 

 by Lonnberg, which he has informed us (in a letter) was taken by 

 Ekman in January, 1928, and which is a Bicknell's thrush. This is 

 the only certain record at present for Haiti. Further specimens 

 should be taken to determine if both forms occur. 



Bangs and Penard 2G have found from examination of the original 

 specimen that the bird described by Lafresnaye as Turdus minimus 



26 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 63, June, 1919, p. 30. 



