736 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



756a. Willow Thrush. 



Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola Ridgw. 1882. 



Only one specimen known, taken by myself, at Ottawa, Sept. 19th, 

 1898. It seems probable that this bird may be regularly taken in 

 Ontario from Sept ist to 25th as it appears to have a breeding 

 ground to the north of us, but has been overlooked in the past on 

 account of its similarity to Wilson's thrush. (W. E. Saunders.) I 

 have one specimen from the Mcllwraith collection, taken at Hamilton, 

 Ont., May i6th, 1895. (/. H. Fleming.) The characteristic "veery" 

 call-note and song were heard several times, and the singer was seen 

 once as we floated down Red river between Winnipeg and West 

 Selkirk, June 14th. None were taken but specimens from the region 

 seem referable to the western form. {E. A. Preble.) Unlike the 

 other species of this genus this form does not appear to extend west- 

 ward beyond the valley of Red river; at any rate it was only ob- 

 served in the vicinity of Pembina. Here it was found breeding in 

 abundance during the month of June. A nest was found on the 9th 

 June, containing four fresh eggs of a uniform bluish-green colour. 

 It was placed upon a small heap of decayed leaves which had been 

 caught on the footstalks of a bush a few inches from the ground, and 

 composed of weed-stems, grasses and fibrous bark-strips, woven to- 

 gether, and mixed with withered leaves. The walls were thick, 

 giving a bulky, irregular, and rather slovenly appearance. {Coiies.) 

 An abundant summer resident of thickets in Manitoba. {E. T. 

 Seton.) A tolerably common breeding summer resident at Aweme, 

 Manitoba; arrives about May 15th and leaves about the 1st of Sep- 

 tember. {Criddle.) 



An abundant breeding species in wooded districts throughout 

 Manitoba and equally numerous along the line of the G. T. P. Ry. west 

 to Edmonton, Alta., in 1906. {Atkinson.) Common along creeks 

 in S.W. Saskatchewan in 1906. (^4. C. Bent.) This species seems 

 to be a spring migrant at Indian Head, Sask. ; it was first observed 

 May 19th, 1892, and soon became common but disappeared about 

 the end of May; this was a common species at Old Wives creek, 

 Sask., and wherever there was brush at Wood mountain and west to 

 Frenchman river and the ravines in the southern part of the Cypress 

 hills; common along Milk river, St. Mary river and Lee creek, Card- 

 ston. Alberta; common on the International Boundary between 



