466 APPENDIX. 



G. ADDITIONS TO MR. MINOT'S LIST OF THE LAND- 

 BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 



THE following chapter treats chiefly of birds not included by Mr. 

 Minot, most of them having been added to the New England list 

 since the first edition of his work appeared. In relation to such of 

 them as are believed to be merely accidental or very rare or irregu- 

 lar visitors I have given little or nothing beyond the records which 

 entitle them to mention in this connection ; but brief descriptions and 

 biographies have been supplied for all the species or subspecies which 

 are known to be regular and more or less common members of our 

 fauna. The chapter also contains a few notes and records which 

 were brought to my attention too late to be entered in the main 

 body of the work. 



TURDUS ALICLE BICKNELLI. BicknelVs Thrush. 



Differing from T. alicice ( 1, I, E) only in being somewhat 

 smaller. Length, about 6.25-7.25 ; wing, 3.40-3.80 ; tail, 2.60- 

 2.70 ; culmen, .50-.52 ; tarsus, 1.10-1.25. 



This small, southern form of T. alicice, discovered by Mr. Eugene 

 P. Bicknell on Slide Mountain, Ulster County, New York, June 15, 

 1881 (cf. Bull. N. O. C., VII, 1882, pp. 153-159), and first de- 

 scribed by Mr. Ridgway (Proc. Nat. Mus.,IV, 1881, pp. 377-379), 

 is now known to be a rather common late spring and early autumn 

 migrant through southern New England, and an abundant summer 

 resident of many of the higher mountains of New Hampshire and 

 Vermont. Mr. Langille has reported (Auk, I, July, 1884, pp. 

 268-270) that it breeds in considerable numbers on some small 

 islands off the southwestern end of Nova Scotia, and early in July, 

 1888, Mr. Walter Faxon took a perfectly typical specimen on the 

 summit of Mt. Graylock in western Massachusetts under circum- 

 stances which led him to believe that it had a mate and nest in the 

 immediate neighborhood (cf. Auk, VI, 1889, p. 106). 



In northern New England BicknelTs Thrush breeds from an alti- 



