the timid recluse were weary of solitude, and craved recognition of its conscious power to please. 

 Yet it is but a momentary indecision ; true to a vow of seclusion, the anchorite is gone again to 

 its inviolate grotto in the fastnesses of the swamp, where a world of melody is wasted in its 

 pathetic song of life." 



American authors recognize three forms or subspecies of the Hermit Thrush, viz. : — 

 1. Turclus pcdlasi, which inhabits Eastern North America ; 2. Turclus pallasi, var. nanus, which 

 inhabits the western province of North America, eastward from Ivodiak to Cape St. Lucas and 

 Arizona, and which differs from T. pallasi in being smaller, in having a more slender and 

 depressed bill, in having the tail darker, richer, and more purplish rufous, and the pectoral spots 

 sparser and less pure black in tinge ; 3. Turclus pallasi, var. auduboni, which inhabits the Rocky 

 Mountains from Fort Bridger south into Mexico, and differs from Turclus pallasi in being 

 rather larger, the upper parts with more of a gi - eenish than a brownish tinge, and the tail lighter 

 and inclining to dull ochraceous rather than rufous. 



The specimens figured and described are in my own collection. 



Iu the preparation of the above article I have examined, besides the large series in the 

 Salvin and Godman collection and in the British Museum, the following specimens: — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, cJ . Inglewood Mauor, Musquash, N. B., May 4th, 1863 {A. R. Dresser), b, ? . Inglevvood Manor, June 



4th, 1862 {H. E. Dresser). c, S , d. East Hamilton, Canada, April 1888 (J. TV. Stainton). e, <3 . 



Calais, Maine, 1864 (G. A. Buardman). /, tf. October 20th, 1888. g, ? . May 3rd, 1889, Laurel, 

 Maryland (C. W. Richmond). 



