HYPOTHETICAL LIST 65S 



which were collected near Brunswick, Maine, and referred to this species* 

 but the data to the set seems to be lacking, and I am more than inclined to 

 believe that the Nashville Warbler is the really responsible species for our 

 Orange-crowned Warbler records. 



Family TURDID^. Thrushes, Solitaires, Stonechats, Blue- 

 birds, etc. 



Genus HYLOCICHLA Baird. 

 756a. Hylociehla fuscescens salicicola Ridgw. Willow 

 Thrush. 



This subspecies is said to breed in Newfoundland and to have been taken 

 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, so we may justly feel war- 

 ranted in seeking for it in Maine during the migrations. 



757a. Hylociehla alkice bicknelU (Ridgw.). BicknelPs 

 Thrush. 



Though almost certainly a breeding species in Maine, it is kept in the 

 possibilities at present for the very reason that no specimen has been 

 actually taken, and there is a chance for an open question regarding the 

 actual identification of species so closely related to Alice's and to the 

 Olive-backed Thrushes until one has been taken here. Bicknell's Thrush 

 must occur however, both as a breeding bird in those limited areas of Hud- 

 sonian fauna which occur in Maine, and as a migrant species through other 

 sections. 



Mr. F. H. Allen wrote me some years back as follows; — " June 22 and 23 

 of this year (1897) I found Bicknell's Thrush present and doubtless breeding 

 at Mt. Ktaadn. I heard five males singing, four along the southern slide, 

 and one on the tableland. None were shot." Mr. D. W. Sweet has also 

 recorded hearing this species singing at Mt. Abraham, June 22, 1906, see 

 Journal of Maine Ornithological Society, 1906, pp. 81-84. Diligent search of 

 the higher mountains will almost certainly positively prove the observations 

 above quoted. There seems to be some reason for suspecting that search of 

 some of the wooded islands along the coast from Mount Desert eastward 

 may show the presence of this species as a summer resident, the flora of 

 that region being rather indicative of this as a possibility. 



Genus SAXICOLA Bechstein. 



765a. Saxicola cenanthe leucorhoa (Gmel.). Greenland 



Wheatear. 



The Wheatear has been most persistently accredited to Maine in recent as 

 well as former publications, though all such records have been chased down 



