CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 739 
also taken on the banks of the Wilmot-Horton river. (Macfarlane.) 
This species is common throughout all the northern portion of Alaska 
wherever willow and alder thickets afford a shelter. (Nelson.) 
This species is not common at St. Michael, and very likely breeds 
there but I never found their eggs. (Turner.) An adult male 
found dead on the ice near Point Tangent, Alaska, May 27th, 1898, 
and a male secured, June roth, 1898, at Point Barrow. (Wztmer 
Stone.) One adult specimen was taken at Sheep creek, Kenai pen- 
insula, Alaska, July sh, 1901. (Fvggins.) This thrush was a com- 
mon summer resident from Cape Blosson eastward to the head of 
Kowak river Kotzebue sound, Alaska. (Grinnell.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have nests with sets taken in the Mac- 
kenzie delta by the Rev. I. O. Stringer and Mr. Young. Mr. Stringer 
found a nest with three eggs, 60 miles north of Point Separation, 
Mackenzie river, on June 12th, 1896. This nest was in a birch tree 
two feet from the ground. The nest is a deep cup-shaped structure 
of dry grass and mud. I have another nest and eggs that was built 
three feet from the ground in a willow growing on the banks of Peel 
river. This was taken 23rd June, 1898. Another nest and three 
eggs were found by Mr. Stringer at the terminus of the Cariboo hills, 
Mackenzie delta, June 15th, 1897. (W. Razne.) 
757a. Bicknell Thrush. 
Hylocichla alicie bicknell1 RipGw. 1882. 
One specimen only known to be taken, by Mr. Robert Elliott, 
Bryanston, Ont., September roth, 1898. (W. E. Saunders.) Mr. 
Ridgway has recognized one bird from Toronto and two from Hamil- 
ton as intermediate in size between this form and alicie but near 
bicknellt in colour. (J. H. Fleming.) One specimen taken from 
a large flock of thrushes near Maple creek, Sask., June 8th, 1906. 
(A.C. Bent.) See Mr. Bent’s note under alicre. 
BREEDING NOTES.—Some observations on the breeding habits of 
Bickneli’s Thrush were made at Seal island, Yarmouth county, N.S., 
during a few days spent there in the early part of June, 1907. A 
dense growth of stunted firs and spruces, mossy, damp and gloomy 
covers the island. Here the thrushes spend the summer and rear 
their young. Three nests were discovered on this trip, from each 
of which three eggs were taken. Of these nests two were situated 
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