736 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
756a. Willow Thrush. 
Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola RipGw. 1882. 
Only one specimen known, taken by myself. at Ottawa, Sept. rgth, 
1898. It seems probable that this bird may be regularly taken in 
Ontario from Sept 1st to 25th as it appears to have a breeding 
ground to the north of us, but has been overlooked in the past on 
account of its similarity to Wilson’s thrush. (W. FE. Saunders.) I 
have one specimen from the McIlwraith collection, taken at Hamilton, 
Ont., May 16th, 1895. (J. H. Fleming.) The characteristic ‘‘veery”’ 
call-note and song were heard several times, and the singer was seen 
once as we floated down Red river between Winnipeg and West 
Selkirk, June 14th. None were taken but specimens from the region 
seem referable to the western form. (E. A. Preble.) Unlike the 
other species of this genus this form does not appear to extend west- 
ward beyond the valley of Red river; at any rate it was only ob- 
served in the vicinity of Pembina. Here it was found breeding in 
abundance during the month of June. A nest was found on the 9th 
June, containing four fresh eggs of a uniform bluish-green colour. 
It was placed upon a small heap of decayed leaves which had been 
caught on the footstalks of a bush a few inches from the ground, and 
composed of weed-stems, grasses and fibrous bark-strips, woven to- 
gether, and mixed with withered leaves. The walls were thick, 
giving a bulky, irregular, and rather slovenly appearance. (Coues.) 
An abundant summer resident of thickets in Manitoba. (FE. T. 
Seton.) A tolerably common breeding summer resident at Aweme, 
Manitoba; arrives about May 15th and leaves about the 1st of Sep- 
tember. (Criddle.) 
An abundant breeding species in wooded districts throughout 
Manitoba and equally numerous along the line of the G. T. P. Ry. west 
to Edmonton, Alta., in 1906. (Atkinson.) Common along creeks 
in S.W. Saskatchewan in 1906. (A.C. Bent.) This species seems 
to be a spring migrant at Indian Head, Sask.; it was first observed 
May 19th, 1892, and soon became common but disappeared about 
the end of May; this was a common species at Old Wives creek, 
Sask., and wherever there was brush at Wood mountain and west to 
Frenchman river and the ravines in the southern part of the Cypress 
hills; common along Milk river, St. Mary river and Lee creek, Card- 
ston, Alberta; common on the International Boundary between 
