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we recorded the regular occurrence of Alice's Thrush — Hylocichla alidce 

 alicice (Baird) , as a breeding bird in suitable places along the coastal regions 

 of Arctic East Siberia, west to the Kolyma. At that time we had received 

 from Mr. Johan Koren only a set of eggs, the parent birds to which were 

 lost, and his notes. 



On a more recent trip to the same general region, in the summer of 1915, 

 we asked Koren to look out especially for the bird and to get us a specimen. 

 This he did, and wrote that he found Alice's Thrush breeding commonly, 

 particularly along the smaller side streams of the Kolyma, that are over- 

 hung by alders. He sent us an adult female. No. 21800, Coll. of John E, 

 Thayer shot at Neshon Kolymsk, June 8, 1915, which is precisely like 

 Alaskan breeding birds. 



The earlier records of Alice's Thrush in East Siberia in the breeding season 

 are — Krit. Obz. Orn. Fauna Vost. Sibiri, 1877, 32, Cape Tschukotsk, (see 

 Stejneger, Auk, I, 1884, 166) and Palmen, Vega — Exp., 1887, 262 Tschuk- 

 tsch-halfon and Pitlekaj. These were apparently taken by Hartert as 

 indicating only the casual occurrence of Hylocichla alicice in East Siberia, 

 and the species was not given a formal place in his Vogel der Palaarktischen 

 Fauna. 



In all probability the individuals of the Siberian colony, travel back and 

 forth each year across Bering Sea and winter with the main bulk of the 

 species in tropical America; just as Asiatic birds, — Acanthapncuste borealis 

 borealis (Blasius); (Enanthe cenanihe cenanihe (Linn.); Cyanosylva suecica 

 robusta (Burturlin); Budytes flavus alascensis Ridg. and Sterna aleutica 

 Baird — now breeding regularly each year in Alaska still migrate southward 

 and winter wholly on the Asiatic side of the Pacific. — John E. Thayeh 

 AND OuTRAM Bangs, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



Some Unusual Records for Massachusetts. — The Boston Society 

 of Natural History has recently acquired the following rarities for its 

 collection of mounted birds. 



Piranga rubra rubra (Linne). Summer Tanager. — A male taken at 

 Deer Island, Boston harbor, Mass., April 11, 1916. The plumage and 

 general condition of this specimen led us to beheve that this bird had not 

 been in captivity. It was taken on the window-ledge of a pumping station. 



Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmel.) Chuck- will's-widow. — An indi- 

 vidual seen flying about the docks at East Boston, Mass., on Oct. 13, 1915, 

 and captured by Mr. N. Hagman. It was not sexed. 



Aluco pratincola {Bp.). Barn Owl. — A female specimen of this owl 

 taken by Mr. Chas. Fowle on June 10, 1915, at Lexington, Mass. 



Somateria spectabilis (Linne). King Eider. — An immature female 

 taken at Newburyport, Mass., by Mr. C. H. Richardson on November 19, 

 1915. — W. Sprague Brooks, Boston Soc. Kat. Hist. 



Bird Notes from the Chicago Area. — Aluco pratincola. Barn 

 Ow'L. — An adult female of this species was given me by Mr. George Dunk- 



