130 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 22, 



July 13. The young birds may bo described as follows: Back and 

 head dark olive-brown, each feather tipped with dusky and with a 

 longitudinal spot of brown; rump and upper tail-coverts brownish 

 spotted with rusty, lower parts white, slightlj' tinged on breast and 

 sides with buffy, each feather tipped with a dusky bar, those on 

 breast heavily marked, the marking decreasing in size posteriorly; 

 throat almost unmarked; cheeks grayish, spotted with dusky; wings 

 and tail olive-brown, the wing quills lighter on outer edges. 



1 again met with the species July 24 at Fort Churchill, where I saw 

 several in stunted spruce woods. 



Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni (Cab.). Olive-backed Thrush. 



The song of this species was heard at Bull Head Point, Lake Win- 

 nipeg, on the morning of June 16. The birds were rather common at 

 Norway House, and were seen or heard daily between there and Oxford 

 House. They were common at Oxford House, and a specimen was 

 taken at that point. "While descending the streams between Oxford 

 House and Yoi'k Factory we found them abundant; everj^ wooded islet 

 in the lakes seemed to be the home of a pair, and wherever we camped 

 we heard their songs, which began soon after midnight. A nest found 

 in a bush overhanging Jack River, between Knee and Swampj- lakes, 

 July 6, contained eggs on the point of hatching. At York Factorj^, 

 where we took two specimens, the species was apparently less abun- 

 dant, and beyond that point we did not meet with it. 



Baird recorded a specimen collected at Moose Factory in July, 1860, 

 by Drexler." 



Hylocichla guttata pallasi (Cab.). Hermit Thrush. 



Nutting found the hermit thrush abundant at Grand Rapids, Sas- 

 katchewan, in the summer of 1891.* Though it doubtless occurs in 

 southern Keewatin, I find no published records of such occurrence. 



Merula migratoria (Linn.). Robin. 



Found throughout the region, but seldom seen elsewhere than in the 

 vicinity of the posts, where, however, they were rather common. 

 Many old and young wei'e seen at Fort Churchill dui'ing the latter part 

 of Juh\ On our return trip we noted the species on Haj'es River 

 August 30, Steel Rivei- August 31, Hill River September 4, and 

 between Oxford and Wind}- lakes September 12. 



Forster recorded it from Severn River,'' and Murray from Severn 

 House and Ti'out Lake.'' 



« Review of American Birds, p. 21, June, 1864. 



6 Nat. Hist. Bull. Univ. Iowa, II, p. 279, 1893. 



cPhil. Trans., LXII, p. 399, 1772. 



t^Edin. New Phil. Journ. (new sen), IX, p. 222, 1859. 



