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756. Hylocichla Juscescens (Steph.). Wilson's Thrush; 

 Veery; Tawny Thrush; Cheeury; Common Thrush; Nightin- 

 gale. 



Plumage of adults : above an uniform cinnamon brown, which by many 

 would be called a deep russet or mummy brown ; below white, strongly 

 tinged with pale ochraceous buff on the sides of the throat and breast ; cen- 

 ter of the throat and the belly white ; sides of throat and breast sparsely 

 spotted with pale sepia wedge-shaped marks and a few fainter spots of the 

 same on the breast ; lores and ring around eye grayish white. Immature 

 plumage: above deep umber brown, spotted with tawny olive and edged 

 with dusky ; otherwise very similar indeed to adults. Wing 3.90 ; tail 2.95 ; 

 culmen 0.54. 



Geog. Dist.— Eastern North America, breeding from northern Illinois, New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania to Manitoba, Ontario, Anticosta and Newfoundland 

 and southward along the Alleghany Mountains to North Carolina ; wintering 

 in southern Florida sparingly, and more generally in Central America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook ; breeds at Houlton, (Batchelder, B. N. 0. C. 7, p. 108) ; southern 

 Aroostook only, not seen by me north of Houlton, (Knight). Cumberland; 

 common summer resident, (Brown, C. B. P. p. 3) ; rare, (Mead). Franklin ; 

 common summer resident, (Swain). Hancock; common summer resident 

 inland, very rare and practically absent from the wooded islands, (Knight). 

 Kennebec; common summer resident, (Gardiner Branch). Oxford; breeds 

 commonly, (Nash). Penobscot; common summer resident of southern half 

 of county, rare northward, (Knight). Piscataquis; three heard singing, 

 (F.H.Allen). Sagadahoc; (Spratt). Somerset ; common summer resident, 

 (Morrell) ; not seen by me in the northern sections, (Knight). Waldo; com- 

 mon summer resident, (Knight). Washington; not uncommon summer 

 resident, (Boardman). York; common summer resident, (Adams). 



Though I find dates of arrival as early as April seven- 

 teenth at Livermore, April twenty-sixth at East Hebron and 

 May first at Waterville, these are exceptionally early. Mr. 

 Brown gives the date of arrival at Portland as May seventeenth 

 to twenty-third, which more nearly accords with my Bangor 

 date of about May sixteenth. Near Bangor, as in case of Mr. 

 Brown's experience, nearly all are gone by the middle of Sep- 

 tember, September twentieth being my latest available date. I 

 find recorded dates as late as October twelfth at Skowhegan 

 and October twenty-first at East Hebron, which are exception- 

 ally late for the species to remain. It is a common species in 



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