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FIG. 36. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 



339. Polioptila caerulea(Z/.). BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER. 

 (751.) Eastern United States, breeding from the Gulf States to 

 northern Illinois, southern Ontario, and northern New Jersey, and 

 wandering rarely to Minnesota and Maine ; winters from Florida 

 southward. There are numerous records of capture of this south- 

 ern species in the vicinity of New York City, but it is not known 

 to occur regularly nearer than Princeton, N. J., where it arrives 

 from "April 25 to May i" (Scott, The Country, I, 1878, p. 354). 



Family TURDID^E. THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 



*340. Turdus mustelinus Gmd. WOOD THRUSH. (755.) 

 Eastern United States, breeding as far north as Minnesota and 

 northern Maine, and wintering in Central America. The Wood 

 Thrush is an abundant summer resident, arriving about May i and 

 remaining until early October. It may rightly claim the rank of 

 the most gifted of our summer songsters. (See Group, main floor, 

 between Cases M and N.) 



*34I. Turdus fuscescens Steph. WILSON'S THRUSH. (756 ) 

 Eastern North America, breeding from northern Illinois and Penn- 

 sylvania to Manitoba and Newfoundland, and southward along the 

 Alleghanies to North Carolina. Wilson's Thrush, or the Veery, 

 as it is better called, is a common summer resident, arriving about 

 May i and remaining until September. (See Group, Gallery, 

 between Cases L and M.) 



