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April are in the Salvin-Godman Collection. Mr. Wayne has found the species breeding in the 
Wacissa and Ancilla districts of Florida (Auk, xii. p. 366), and he heard a bird singing in April om 
the Suwanee River. "s 
Mr. Nebrling (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 6) says that in South-eastern Texas the Wood- 
'Thrush arrives from the north early in October, but is not common. in the winter months, 
inhabiting swampy thickets and bottom woods. Specimens collected by Mr. F. B. Armstrong at 
Corpus Christi and Brownsville, in April and October, are in the Salvin-Godman Collection. 
The line of migration of the present species appears to be by Eastern Mexico to its winter 
home, but it has been recorded by Lawrence (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 11) as having been 
found by Sumichrast near Tehuantepec city on the Pacific side. Messrs. Salvin and Godman; in 
the * Biologia Centrali-Americana’ (Aves, i. p. 9), give the following localities for the species, to 
which are added some other instances of its occurrence in Mexico, based upon specimens in the 
Salvin-Godman Collection in the British Museum :— Tampico, Feb. (W. В. Richardson: spec. in 
Mus. 8.-6.), СоПра (F. D. Godman: spec. in Mus. S.-G.), Vega del Casadero (M. Trujillo: spec. in 
Mus. S.-G.), Teapa, Vera Cruz (D. W. Smith: spec. in Mus. 8.-6.), Cordova (Sallé ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 
1856, p. 294), Jalapa (De Oca ; Sclater, P. 7. S. 1859, p. 962), Orizaba (Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist, i. p. 543), Tierra Caliente of the Atlantic (Le Strange), Tabasco (Bp. C. В. xxxviii. p. 2). 
Specimens from Orange Walk and Cayo in British Honduras, obtained by Dr. F. Blancaneaux, 
are in the Salvin-Godman Collection, and Dr. б. F. Gaumer obtained many examples during the 
winter months in the islands of Cozumel and Mugeres (Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p.242). In Guatemala 
Messrs. Salvin and Godman state that the most western point at which they met with the species 
was Godines, *a small village 7000 feet above the sea, situated in the mountains at the eastern 
end of the upland lake of Atitlan; here it was observed in February 1874. In the neighbourhood 
of Coban, in Vera Paz, it is, during the winter months, a very common bird ; and it may be found 
in the second-growth woods, especially wherever a mountain-stream runs" (Biol Centr.-Amer., 
Aves, i. p. 9). 
Leyland procured a specimen at Omoa in Honduras (Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 55), and 
Mr. Dyson also met with the species in that country, some skins of his preserving being in the 
British Museum. More recently Mr. Underwood has obtained a single example of this species 
on the Volcano of Miravalles in Costa Rica (Ibis, 1896, p. 482). In Nicaragua Mr. Richmond 
says he heard the species several times on the Escondido River, and noticed it first on November 7 
(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 482). In the Seebohm Collection is a skin said to have come from 
Veragua, but it bears no indication of the collector, and there has probably been some mistake 
as to the locality. | 
According to Mr. С. B. Cory, the Wood-Thrush is occasionally found in Cuba, and it has 
been recorded from Jamaica; but its occurrence in the latter island is questioned (Auk, iii. 
p. 1), and Mr. Scott did not meet with it during his expedition to Jamaica (Auk, x. p. 342). 
Mr. Ridgway has recorded a specimen from New Providence in the Bahamas, obtained by the 
Naturalists of the * Albatross’ on the 16th of April (Auk, viii. p. 335). 
Mr. Nehrling has given a good account of the species in his work on North American Birds :— 
“It is found chiefly in low damp woodlands which are thickly covered with undergrowth, and 
prefers for settlement Ше shady interior to the noisy and busy neighbourhood of man. It loves the 
deep halfdarkness of the forest-solitude with its peace and quietness. Неге one can hear the 
wonderful, harmonious, flute-like song from early dawn till the fall of the evening twilight. Although 
usually selecting low woods for its home, it seems to love equally well high mountain regions. In 
the mountains of North Carolina and elsewhere it loves to nest in the grand evergreen rhododendrons 
(E. catawabiense, В. punctatum). 
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