218 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



TURDIDAE. 



396. Hylocichla aliciae (Baird) Ridgway. 

 Gray-cheeked thrush; Alice's thrush; Arctic thrush. 



Turdus aliciae Baird, U. S. war dept., expl. and surv. Miss. 

 Riv. to Pac. Ocean, 1858, pt. 2, birds, p. 217. " Illinois, .... upper 

 Missouri." Seebohm and Sharpe, Monogr. Turdidae, 1898, pt. 

 4, pi. 45, fig. 1. 



Dense fir thickets in summer, moist shaded spots on migration; 

 nests in low trees. 



Me. — Uncommon migrant. May 20-25; Sept. 20. 

 N. H.— Rare migrant: Dublin, Oct. 2, 1899. 

 Vt. — Rare migrant. May 18. 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant. (May 13) May 17-June 3 

 (June 18); Sept. 10-Oct. 9. 

 R. I. — Uncommon migrant. May 20; Sept. 23-Oct. 7. 

 Conn. — Uncommon migrant. 



397. Hylocichla aliciae bicknelli Ridgway. 

 Bicknell's thrush. 



Ridgw., Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 1882, vol. 4, p. 377. "Slide 

 Mountain, Ulster County, New York." Bull. 50, U. S. nat. 

 mus., 1907, pt. 4, p. 62. (Unfigured). 



Fir and spruce thickets in summer, moist shady spots on migra- 

 tion; nests in low trees. 



Me.— Common local summer resident on higher mountain tops 

 (Mt. Abraham, Ktaadn, etc.); Maine breeding birds may be 

 true aliciae (Knight). May-Sept. 20. 



N. H. — Common summer resident above 3000 ft. to tree limit 

 among White Mts., south to Sandwich Range. May 25-Sept. 15. 

 Eggs, June 22. 



Vt. — Uncommon summer resident on higher mountains : Jay 

 Peak, Mt. Annanance, Mt. Killington, Mt. Mansfield, Pico Peak, 

 etc. May-Sept. Eggs, June 22. 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant, and on summit of Mt. Greylock 



