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290. Turdus aonalaschkae auduboni (Baird). AUDUBON'S 

 HERMIT THRUSH. 



Julian, San Diego County. N. S. Goss. March 17. 



San Bernardino Mountains. F. Stephens. Upper 

 pine regions 9,000 feet altitude breeds. 



Later, Mr. Stephens wrote: " I am not certain whether 

 the eggs I got in the San Bernardino Mountain are 

 auduboni or nanus, as I wounded the parent bird but did 

 not get her. On looking over ray skins I find three, one 

 of which is nanus, one is var. audaboni both were taken 

 near Campo the third is very nearly intermediate be- 

 tween nanus and auduboni." 



Henshaw, 1879. During the summer of 1877 I heard 

 in several of the subalpine valleys of northeastern Cali- 

 fornia what were without doubt the Audubon's thrushes 

 but failed to secure specimens. Here they were evi- 

 dently not very numerous, but in the mountains back 

 of Camp Bidwell the succeeding season the same thrush 

 was heard and satisfactorily identified by shooting the 

 bird. They were here very abundant. 



Santa Barbara. J. Amory Jeffries. (Auk, 1888, page 

 222.) Came April 2, 1883. 



L. B. Perhaps all of the above notes refer to the bird 

 I described in these Proceedings, June 11, 1889, under 

 the name Turdus sequoiensis. 



291. Merula migratoria propinqua Ridgw. WESTERN 

 ROBIN. 



San Diego. L. B. Common in the winter of 1883-84. 

 It disappeared March 22 but returned on the 29th and 

 remained two days while the mountains east of San Diego 

 were covered with snow. One was seen at Campo, May 

 14, just previous to a rainstorm. No robins were seen 

 during a four days' journey south of Campo, about half 

 of which was through pine-clad mountains, from May 9 



