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immaculate and unmarked,’breast dark olivaceous buff more heavily 
marked with blunt arrow shaped fuscous spots, sides white strongly 
tinged with olivaceous, under mandible horn color tipped with brown. 
sSeiolee alegre 9 iste. el Gan eh PER esac ee Bi eee ae eee . Willow Thrush. 
8. Throat, breast, cheeks, aims and lores gray with a very slight - 
buffy tinge. ... ee .Gray-cheeked Thrush. 
8. Throat, breast, hee eye-ring, sou fore anee cream buff... . (9) 
9. Upper parts more olivaceous, sides and flanks less grayish... .. 
Ae ie re are Ameren ari eye eR YS Aa ere ey Ay, Olivespatked ‘Thrush. 
9. Upper parts more grayish, especially on rump and upper tail-coverts; 
sides, and flanks more grayish. . 4 See .Alma Thrush. 
10 Whole upper parts blue CsA os pace ene 
Ashcan ered Se om ee See EAE a pee e. Chestnut-backed Bivebied: 
11. Throat and breast chestnut. . Jon Sinco. sae wale (ete de RES 
11. Throat and breast not iiste ie cut pale ine mae eae ie Mountain Bluebird. 
754. *Myadestes townsendii (Audubon)—ToWNSEND SOLITAIRE. 
Resident in northwest Nebraska. Common summer resident in 
Sioux county, breeding in the latter part of May, in winter spreading 
eastward over the entire state. Valentine, Long Pine, Niobrara 
valley, Neligh, Norfolk, Alda, Lincoln, Beatrice—wintering. 
755. *Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin) Woop Turvusu. 
Entire state; abundant summer resident and breeder eastward, un- 
commonly so westward; arriving first week in May, breeding in June, 
departing by the middle of September. Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, 
Peru, West Point, Dakota City, Neligh, Long Pine, Sioux county— 
breeding. 
[756. Hylocichla fuscescens Stephens, the Wilson Thrush, is the form of 
Eastern North America west to Missouri (see Howe, Auk, XVII, pp. 
18-25), but may straggle west into eastern Nebraska. However, in 
the absence of specimens, all our records are referred to the fol- 
lowing.] 
756a. Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola Ridgway—WiLLow TurusH. 
An uncommon migrant, arriving the first week in May and lingering 
into June, departing early in September. It is probably an occa- 
sional breeder, but as yet the only evidence of its nesting is a pair seen 
by Wolcott near Lincoln June 2, 1898, in a locality very favorable for 
that purpose, the male in full song. Richardson county, Omaha, 
Lincoln, West Point. 
757. Hylocichla alicie (Baird) —Gray-CcHEEKED THRUSH. 
An uncommon migrant, passing through in the middle of May to 
breed north of the United States. Beatrice, Lincoln—migrating. 
758a. Hylocichla ustulata swainsonii (Cabanis)—OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. 
An abundant migrant in eastern Nebraska, arriving the first week 
in May or a little earlier, lingering until well into June, breeding north 
of the state, reappearing in early September and present most of that 
