218 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



TURDIDAE. 



396. HYLOCICHLA ALICIAE (Baird) Ridgway. 

 Gray-cheeked thrush; Alice's thrush; Arctic thrush. 



T urdus aliciae Baird, U. S. war dept., expl. and surv. Miss. 

 Riv. to Pac. Ocean, 1858, pt. 2, birds, p. 217. " ILLINOIS, .... UPPER 

 MISSOURI." Seebohm and Sharpe, Monogr. Turdidae, 1898, pt. 

 4, pi. 45, fig. 1. 



Dense fir thickets in summer, moist shaded spots on migration; 

 nests in low trees. 



ME. Uncommon migrant. May 20-25; Sept. 20. 

 N. H. Rare migrant: Dublin, Oct. 2, 1899. 

 VT. Rare migrant. May 18. 



MASS. Uncommon migrant. (May 13) May 17-June 3 

 (June 18); Sept. 10-Oct. 9. 



R. I. Uncommon migrant. May 20; Sept. 23-Oct. 7. 

 CONN. Uncommon migrant. 



397. HYLOCICHLA ALICIAE BICKNELLI Ridgway. 

 Bicknell's thrush. 



Ridgw., Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 1882, vol. 4, p. 377. " SLIDE 

 MOUNTAIN, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK." Bull. 50, U. S. nat. 

 mus., 1907, pt. 4, p. 62. (Unfigured). 



Fir and spruce thickets in summer, moist shady spots on migra- 

 tion; nests in low trees. 



ME. Common local summer resident on higher mountain tops 

 (Mt. Abraham, Ktaadn, etc.); Maine breeding birds may be 

 true aliciae (Knight). May-Sept. 20. 



N. H. Common summer resident above 3000 ft. to tree limit 

 among White Mts., south to Sandwich Range. May 25-Sept. 15. 

 Eggs, June 22. 



VT. Uncommon summer resident on higher mountains : Jay 

 Peak, Mt. Annanance, Mt. Killington, Mt. Mansfield, Pico Peak, 

 etc. May-Sept. Eggs, June 22. 



MASS. Uncommon migrant, and on summit of Mt. Greylock 



