LIST. 127 



Royal Park. Nests with eggs found from May 31 

 to June 27. Observed here from May 11 to Sep- 

 tember 28. 



244. Gray-cheeked Thrush. F. alicioe Baird. 



Mr. Chamberlain's list of Canadian birds, gives 

 this thrush as occurring throughout Canada, and 

 in that case it is likely to occur in this district, but 

 I have not shot a specimen of this species here yet. 

 I have noticed some large thrushes here without 

 been able to identify them, as they were too shy 

 for me to approach them near enough to shoot them 

 with my cane-gun, so that, I could have positively 

 identified them, by having specimens in my hands. 

 Some good people think it is cruel, and unnecessary 

 to kill birds for scientific study, but their senti- 

 mentalism generally arises from ignorance of Orni- 

 thology. 



245. Olive-backed Thrush. T. ustulatus swainsonii. 



(Cab.) 



u Transient Visitant," scarce. I have observed 

 only three examples of this thrush on the Island of 

 Montreal. I shot one specimen October 2, 1886, 

 on the spur of Mount Royal, and saw one in the 

 same locality October 5, 1886, and I shot a female 

 specimen May 24, 1890, in the same place. I 

 believe Mr. W. W. Dun lop found a nest with eggs 

 of this species, a number of .years ago, on the 



