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Shufeldt, Contributions i<> Avian Paleontology '2J 



71. Hylocichla guttata pallasi. Bbrmit Thrush.- The Sennit 

 Thrush breeds regularly along the coast of New Hampshire in the white 



pine woods, hut in Essex County il heroines local and less common as a 



summer resident. Thus Dr. Townsend records its breeding at, Lynn, 

 North Beverly, between Gloucester and Magnolia, and in Essex, George- 

 town, and Boxford. Judging from Mr. Damsell's notes it breeds with 

 some regularity in the vicinity of Amesbury. Thus lie found its nest and 

 eggs OB May 30, 1888, and again on June I, IS!) I. In L893 the bird is 

 QOted throughout May, and several times in June, July and August, 1898. 



A late bird was seen December 2, isoi 



72. Sialia sialis sialis. BLUEBIRD. — An early arrival was noted on 

 February 16, 1902, and a male on the 27th of the same month. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVIAN PALEONTOLOGY. 



BY K. W. SHUFELDT. 



I. Tin: Status of Extinct Meleagridae. 1 

 Plate III. 

 Up to the present time, there have been but three species of 



f.i il Meleagrid® described and recorded, and these are correctly 

 listed — in so far a i I heir names go on page 388 of the third edi- 

 tion of the A. (). LI. Check-List of North American Birds. Two of 

 these, namely .1/. antiqua and .1/. viler, were described by Marsh, — 



tlie former being from the OHgOCene (White River) of Oregon [?], 

 and the latter from the Pleistocene of New Jersey. 



It may he of interest, hut surely of no importance, that Marsh 

 al o described other fossil remains of a bird as .1/. altus from the 



"Post-pliocene" of New Jersey, which has since been discovered 

 to he hut a synonym of Meleagris superba of ( 'ope. 



.1/. 8Uperbd is the third species listed in the A. (). I'. Check-List, 



and is said to have come from the Pleistocene of New Jersey. On 



1 The Illustrated Outdoor World <i»<i A'" reation of New York Citj will soon 

 publish ia serial form a "Historj or the North American Turkeys" by E. A. 

 Mcllhenny, to appear as a booh later on. The present article Forms, in part, 

 line Hi' i in' chapters on Prehistoric Turkeys. 



