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the bay. No young. were obtained but they certainly breed. 

 {Grinnell.) Abundant summer visitant at Chilliwack. {Brooks.) 

 Very common in the coast region ; breeds. {Streator) A com- 

 mon summer resident west of the Coast Range; I have found it as 

 far north as Dease Lake in Cassiar. {Fannin.) Abundant in British 

 Columbia, coastwise. {Rhoads.) Common on Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, B.C. Eight specimens were taken in various parts of the 

 islands. It was very abundant at Clew on the north side of Cum. 

 shewa Inlet, but was not seen at all at our camp at the head of 

 the inlet where we found H. a. verecunda. {Osgood.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eighteen; two taken at Agassiz, B.C., May, 1889; five at Chilli- 

 wack, B.C., June, 1901; one at Hastings, B.C., April i6th, 1889, 

 one at Huntington, B.C., September 24th, 1901, eight at Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, and one at Comox, Vancouver Island , May, 

 1893, all by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



A series of five eggs taken on Vancouver Island by the Rev. 

 George Taylor. 



758a. Olive-backed Thrush. 



Hylocichla ustulata swainsonii (Cab.) Ridgw. 1880. 

 Specimens were obtained, June 13th and in July, i860, at Rupert 

 House by Drexler. {Packard^ Common on the Moose River ; 

 and observed as far north as Fort George, James Bay, in June, 

 1896. {Spreadborough^ A tolerably common summer niigrant in 

 Newfoundland. {Reeks) Not as common as the hermit thrush at 

 Halifax, N.S. {Downs.) Taken at Cove Head Road, Prince Ed- 

 ward Island, July 5th, 1888; at numerous points on Cape Breton 

 Island, 1898. {Macoun.) Very abundant on Prince Edward Island, 

 almost equalling in numbers the hermit thrush. {Dwight.) A 

 summer resident, breeding in abundance at St. John, N.B. {Cham- 

 berlain.) Breeds on the Magdalen Islands, but is not common. 

 {Bishop) Generally distributed but not so common in the Gulf 

 of St Lawrence as in northern New England. {Brewster) A 

 scarce and transient visitant at Montreal. I have observ.ed only 

 three examples of this thrush on the island of Montreal. I be- 

 lieve Mr. Dunlop found a nest with eggs of this species, a number 

 of years ago, on the island of Montreal. {Wintle) This species 

 is common enough in eastern Quebec in summer. {Dionne) 



