Auk 
Jan. 
20 Howe, fanges of Wilson’s and Willow Thrushes. 
specimen along the line of the 5oth parallel of latitude between 
Newfoundland and Rainy Lake River. Although this appar- 
ent hiatus exists, careful comparison and measurements show 
no difference between specimens from these two localities. The 
specimen from Chicago, Ill., which Mr. Ridgway cited in the 
collection of H. K. Coale of that city (No. 15681), taken Sep- 
tember 16, was undoubtedly a fall straggler, but probably not so 
far out of its range as at that time supposed. The bird recorded 
from Cook Co., Texas (Cook’s Migration in the Miss. Valley, 
Bull. No. 2, U.S. Dept. of Agr., p. 284) was probably also a 
straggler. The pair of Thrushes observed by Mr. -Brewster on 
Anticosti may have been of this race, for without the bird in the 
hand it is difficult, though not impossible, to tell it from A/ylocichla 
Suscescens, and it seems unlikely that Mr. Brewster should identify 
Juscescens or its subspecies for alice. The specimen taken at 
Newport, before referred to (also typical sa/icico/a), and the 
Willow Thrush recorded from near thé town of Chester, South 
Carolina, October 5, 1888, by Leverett M. Loomis (Auk, Vol. 
VI, No. 2, p. 194), and a male taken by me at Bristol, Rhode 
Island, on September 24, 1899 (typical sa/sczcola), are probably 
not stragglers, as one might heretofore have supposed, from the 
far West, but from Newfoundland. ‘The question at once arises 
as suggested above, whether sa/iczcola, as it inhabits Newfound- 
land, does not also inhabit Labrador, Anticosti, and surrounding 
regions, and whether it does not also inhabit the intervening 
country between its known western and eastern habitats. 
It will be interesting to see whether many of the eastern United 
States collections do not contain specimens of sadicicola taken 
late in the fall or perhaps early in the spring, formerly identified 
as [ylocichla fuscescens.* 
It is thought that it may be of value to add here, beside the 
1 Since the above was put in type I have received from Mr. W. E. Saunders 
a specimen of 77. f. salicicola from Ottawa, Ont., taken Sept. 19, 1899. Being 
a fall specimen, it only shows the southward migration of this race extends as 
far west as Ottawa, or that in case the bird had followed a direct southern 
route, that the region directly north of Ottawa is inhabited by 7%. / sadiczcola, 
which would be interesting as filling the gap between its western and eastern 
ranges. 
