710 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
the bay. No young were obtained but they certainly breed. 
(Grinnell.) Abundant summer visitant at Chilliwack. (Bvooks.) 
Very common in the coast region; breeds. (Streator.) A com- 
mon summer resident west of the Coast Range; J have found it as 
far north as Dease Lake in Cassiar. (Fanmin.) Abundant in British 
Columbia, coastwise. (Rhoads.) Common on Queen Charlotte 
Islands, B.C. Eight specimens were taken in various parts of the 
islands. It was very abundant at Clew on the north side of Cum. 
shewa Inlet, but was not seen at all at our camp at the head of 
the inlet where we found A. a. verecunda. (Osgood.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eighteen; two taken at Agassiz, B.C., May, 1889; five at Chilli- 
wack, B.C., June, 1901; one at Hastings, B.C., April 16th, 1880, 
one at Huntington, B.C., September 24th, 1901, eight at Victoria, 
Vancouver Island, and one at Comox, Vancouver Island, May, 
1893, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
A series of five eggs taken on Vancouver Island by the Rev. 
George Taylor. 
758a. Olive-backed Thrush. 
Hylocichla ustulata swainsonit (Cas.) RipGw. 1880. 
Specimens were obtained, June 13th and in July, 1860, at Rupert 
House by Drexler. (Packard.) Common on the Moose River ; 
and observed as far north as Fort George, James Bay, in June, 
1896. (Spreadborough.) A tolerably common summer migrant in 
Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Not as common as the hermit thrush at 
Halifax, N.S. (Downs.) Taken at Cove Head Road, Prince Ed- 
ward Island, July 5th, 1888; at numerous points on Cape Breton 
Island, 1898. (Macoun.) Very abundant on Prince Edward Island, 
almost equalling in numbers the hermit thrush. (Dwzght.) A 
summer resident, breeding in abundance at St. John, N.B. (Cham- 
berlain.) Breeds on the Magdalen Islands, but is not common. 
(Bishop.) Generally distributed but not so common in the Gulf 
of St Lawrence as in northern New England. (Srewster.) A 
scarce and transient visitant at Montreal. I have observed only 
three examples of this thrush on the island of Montreal. I be- 
lieve Mr. Dunlop found a nest with eggs of this species, anumber | 
of years ago, on the island of Montreal. (Wzntle.) This species 
is common enough in eastern Quebec in summer. (Dvzonne.) 
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