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within the last five or six years, but so far as I can ascertain in 

 New Hampshire, this appears not to be noticeably at the ex- 

 pense of any other species. On the coast, Mr. W. B. Cram has 

 noted it in summer at Hampton Falls. In the Merrimack val- 

 ley, Mr. F. W. Batchelder (: oo) gives it as a summer resident 

 about Manchester, and at Concord I am informed of its pres- 

 ence by Mr. W. W. Flint. Mrs. E. K. Webster also writes of 

 having observed it at Franklin Falls on May 21, 1900, and Mr. 

 Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 34) records it from Franklin on local au- 

 thority. In the southwestern part of the state, a few reach the 

 lower Connecticut valley and Mr. Ralph Hoffmann has observed 

 it at Alstead in 1899 and 1900. Mr, G. H. Thayer assures me 

 that up to about 1895 he had never seen the bird about Dublin, 

 but that it now appears annually in small numbers about Dub- 

 lin I^ake, and occurs also at Keene, Hancock and Marlboro, 

 preferring the sugar maple groves. Evidently these birds have 

 followed up the side valley from the Connecticut. Farther to 

 the northward, I have observed a single bird at Wonalancet on 

 the Birch Intervales, July 14, 1899. Mr. F. H. Allen has also 

 observed one on June 7, 1900, at Chocorua. In the Saco val- 

 ley at Intervale, I had never seen the Vv^ood Thrush until July 5, 

 1899, when I found a bird singing among some undergrowth in 

 a large grove of sugar maples by the river. The bird was ob- 

 served singing in the same spot the following year on June i8th. 

 Dr. Walter Faxon also tells me that he observed two Wood 

 Thrushes singing near Mt. Moosilauke on June 20, 1894, and 

 two others in song on the Breezy Point road. North Woodstock, 

 on June i, 1895. In the latter instance the birds were at so 

 considerable an elevation as about 2,000 feet. More recently, 

 Mr. Bradford Torrey ( : 00) has for the first time found it in the 

 Franconia woods, two birds in full song being noted in late 

 May and early June, 1899. In one case, at least, the bird was 

 in a large sugar maple grove. Mr. Horace W. Wright ( : 02) 

 has recorded the bird for the first time to the north of the White 



Mountains in the Jefferson valley in 1902. 

 Dates : May 15 to September. 



248. Hylociclila fuscescens (Steph.). Wii^son's 



Thrush. 



