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on sides of breast pale olivaceous; sides of body tinged same; 
tibize white; lower mandibile brownish at tip; lores ashy. 
Length, 7.50; wing, 4.25; tail, 3.20; tarsus, 1.20. 
Habitat, eastern United States to Plains. 
TURDUS ALICIEZ (Barrp). (757.) 
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. 
This comparatively new species, or newly individualized 
species, isoccasionally met with in migration, and may possibly 
yet be proved to be asummer resident in some localities.* It 
arrives about the 10th of May and apparently disappears by the 
20th, at least that is the latest record I have of one obtained 
almost within the city limits during May of the present year. 
It may be much more common than my opportunities for know- 
ing indicate, for it is an exceedingly shy bird, confining itself 
while here to thickets, along the borders of groves, and forests 
of hardwood. I have never been able to assure myself that I 
have heard its song, notwithstanding its unmistakable charac- 
ter as given by modern writers. The downwardness of the 
scale of its song as described by those who are familiar with 
the species in New England as contrasted with that of T. Pal- 
lasi, has met my ear on several occasions without being confi- 
dent of its source. Its observation at so many proximate 
places in adjoining states seems to justify the expectation that 
the species will yet be found to be fairly represented in portions 
of Minnesota. I have had only a single individual in my hands 
by my own gun yet. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Third quill longest; fourth nearly equal; second slightly 
longer than fifth. Above nearly pure dark olive-green; sides 
of head, ashy-gray; chin, throat, under parts and ring around 
eye, white, purest behind. Sides of throat and across the 
breast with arrow-shaped spots of dark plumbeous-brown; sides 
of body and axillaries, dull grayish-olivaceous; tibize, plumb- 
eous; legs brown. 
Length, 8; wing, 4.20; tail, 3.20; tarsus, 1.15. 
Habitat, eastern North America west to the Plains. 
*Mr. T.S. Roberts, Mr. J. Angstrum, and a promising young naturalist by the name- 
of H. McCoy, of Merriam Park, have each given me verbal reports of having collected 
this species in this vicinity. 
