CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 739 



also taken on the banks of the Wihnot-Horton river. (Macfarlane.) 

 This species is common throughout all the northern portion of Alaska 

 wherever wiUow and alder thickets afford a shelter. (Nelson.) 

 This species is not common at St. Michael, and very likely breeds 

 there but I never found their eggs. (Turner.) An adult male 

 found dead on the ice near Point Tangent, Alaska, May 27th, 1898, 

 and a male secured, June loth, 1898, at Point Barrow. (Witmer 

 Stone.) One adult specimen was taken at Sheep creek, Kenai pen- 

 insula, Alaska, July sh, 1901. (Figgins.) This thrush was a com- 

 mon summer resident from Cape Blosson eastward to the head of 

 Kowak river Kotzebue sound, Alaska. (Grinnell.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have nests with sets taken in the Mac- 

 kenzie delta by the Rev. I. O. Stringer and Mr. Young. Mr. Stringer 

 found a nest with three eggs, 60 miles north of Point Separation, 

 Mackenzie river, on June 12th, 1896. This nest was in a birch tree 

 two feet from the ground. The nest is a deep cup-shaped structure 

 of dry grass and mud. I have another nest and eggs that was built 

 three feet from the ground in a willow growing on the banks of Peel 

 river. This was taken 23rd June, 1898. Another nest and three 

 eggs were found by Mr. Stringer at the terminus of the Cariboo hills. 

 Mackenzie delta, June 15th, 1897. {W. Raine.) 



757a. Bicknell Tlirush. 



Hylocichla alicice hicknelli Ridgw. 1882. 



One specimen only known to be taken, by Mr. Robert Elliott, 

 Bryanston, Ont., September 19th, 1898. {W. E. Saunders.) Mr. 

 Ridgway has recognized one bird from Toronto and two from Hamil- 

 ton as intermediate in size between this form and alicioe bttt near 

 hicknelli in colour. (/. //. Fleming.) One specimen taken from 

 a large flock of thrushes near Maple creek, vSask., June 8th, 1906. 

 (A. C. Bent.) See Mr. Bent's note under alicice. 



Breeding Notes. — Some observations on the breeding habits of 

 Bicknell's Thrush were made at Seal island, Yarmouth county, N.S., 

 during a few days spent there in the early part of June, 1907. A 

 dense growth of stunted firs and spruces, mossy, damp and gloomy 

 covers the island. Here the thrushes spend the summer and rear 

 their young. Three nests were discovered on this trip, from each 

 of which three eggs were taken. Of these nests two were situated 

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