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immaculate and unmarked, breast dark olivaceous buff more heavily 



marked with blunt arrow shaped fuscous spots, sides white strongly 



tinged with olivaceous, under mandible horn color tipped with brown. 



Willow Thrush. 



8. Throat, breast, cheeks, eye-ring, and lores gray with a very slight 

 buffy tinge. ... Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



8. Throat, breast, cheeks, eye-ring, and lores deep cream buff. ... (9) 

 9. Upper parts more olivaceous, sides and flanks less grayish 



Olive-backed Thrush. 



9. Upper parts more grayish, especially on rump and upper tail-coverts; 



sides, and flanks more grayish Alma Thrush. 



10 Whole upper parts blue (11) — middle of back chestnut 



Chestnut-backed Bluebird. 



11. Throat and breast chestnut Bluebird. 



11. Throat and breast not chestnut, but pale blue Mountain Bluebird. 



754. *Myadestes townsendii (Audubon) — Townsbnd Solitaike. 



Resident in northwest Nebraska. Common summer resident in 

 Sioux county, breeding in the latter part of May, in winter spreading 

 eastward over the entire state. Valentine, Long Pine, Niobrara 

 valley, Neligh, Norfolk, Alda, Lincoln, Beatrice — wintering. 



755. *Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin) — Wood Thrush. 



Entire sta'te; abundant summer resident and breeder eastward, un- 

 commonly so westward; arriving first week in May, breeding in June, 

 departing by the middle of September. Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, 

 Peru, West Point, Dakota City, Neligh, Long Pine, Sioux county — 

 breeding. 



[756. Hylocichla fuscescens Stephens, the Wilson Thrush, is the form of 

 Eastern North America west to Missouri (see Howe, Auk, XVII, pp. 

 18-25), but may straggle west into eastern Nebraska. However, in 

 the absence of specimens, all our records are referred to the fol- 

 lowing.] 



756a. Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola Ridgway — Willow Thrush. 



An uncommon migrant, arriving the first week in May and lingering 

 into June, departing early in September. It is probably an occa- 

 sional breeder, but as yet the only evidence of its nesting is a pair seen 

 by Woleott near Lincoln June 2, 1898, in a locality very favorable for 

 that purpose, the male in full song. Richardson county, Omaha, 

 Lincoln, West Point. 



757. Hylocichla alicise (Baird) — Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



An uncommon migrant, passing through in the middle of May to 

 breed north of the United States. Beatrice, Lincoln — migrating. 



758a. Hylocichla ustulata swainsonii (Cabanis) — Olive-backed Thrush. 



An abundant migrant in eastern Nebraska, arriving the first week 

 in May or a little earlier, lingering untU well into June, breeding north 

 of the state, reappearing in early September and present most of that 



