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Altho reported commonly in the northern portion in summer, I have 
no positive information of a nest’s having been found in Ohio. In fact this 
species is one of the inexcusably neglected birds of the state. 
No. 95. 
GRAY-CHEEKED  PERUSH. 
A. O. U. No. 757. Hylocichla aliciz (Baird). 
Synonym.—ALicr’s THRusH. 
Description.—Adult: Above, uniform dull olive-brown; below, white, on 
the breast and sides of throat tinged with pinkish buff, and further marked by 
broad, sector-shaped spots of blackish; the sides and sometimes lower breast 
washed with dusky gray; lores and region about angle of commissure distinctly 
gray; remaining space on side of head gray, mingled with olive-brown. Bill 
dark brown, somewhat lighter below; feet brown. Length 7.00-8.00 (177.8- 
203.2) ; av. of six Columbus specimens; wing 4.05 (102.9) ; tail 2.56 (65.); bill 
S50) (GAGA): 
Recognition Marks.—Sparrow to Chewink size; pallid cheeks afford only 
positive diagnostic mark; darker above and more heavily marked on breast than 
H. fuscescens. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, of bark-strips, leaves, grasses, 
etc., lined with fine grasses; on branches of low trees or on bushes, two to eight 
feet from ground. Eggs, 4, greenish blue, faintly spotted with reddish or yel- 
lowish brown. Av. size, .QI x .70 (23.1 x 17.8). 
General Range.—E astern North America west to the Plains, Alaska and 
northern Siberia; north to the Arctic Coast ; south in winter to Costa Rica. Breeds 
chiefly north of the United States. 
Range in Ohio.—Not very common spring and fall migrant. 
ALL Thrushes look alike to the layman, and it is not perhaps to be 
wondered at that this species, altho by no means rare, is not known to above 
a dozen observers in the state. Alice's Thrush has the same modest ways 
and semi-terrestrial habits which characterize the other members of the 
genus, and while with us does little to distinguish itself from them. Like 
the others it has a fashion of slipping along quietly through the under- 
growth, and may not be observed until driven, all unconsciously perhaps, 
to its last ditch, whereupon it flutters up into view on a post of the boundary 
fence, or hurtles back wildly over the observer’s head. It is, perhaps, a little 
more deliberate in movement than the Olive-backed Thrush, with which it 
is most likely to be confounded. 
