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mentioned in the *Fauna Boreali-Americana 'as Merula minor, and another from Red River 
Settlement in the Smithsonian Institution, place Wilson's Thrush as an inhabitant of the region; 
but for my own part I did not obtain a specimen." і 
From Pembina Mr. Ridgway records а specimen as belonging to the true 7. fuscescens (Proc, 
U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 376), and Mr. Agersborg says that the species is a rare summer resident in 
S.E. Dakota, but he did not find the nest (Auk, ii. p. 271). 
Dr. Hatch states that Wilson's Thrush is a fairly common bird in Minnesota, and is apparently 
widely distributed over the State, nesting about the last week in May (B. Minnes. p. 435). 
In Wayne Co., Ohio, it is, according to Mr. Oberholser, the least numerous of the transient 
Thrushes, and has only been observed in 1892, when it was seen in May near Wooster, in the valley 
of the Killbuck. А specimen has also been taken in spring near Orrville (B. Wayne Co. p. 337). 
Mr. White says that it is common on Mackinac Island, in Northern Michigan, from July to 
September (Auk, v. p. 229), and it also nests in the State of Iowa (Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, 
i. p. 493; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 6). 
In Pennsylvania Mr. Warren regards the present species as a common migrant in spring and 
autumn (B. Pennsylvania, p. 249), but it breeds on the Pennsylvanian Alleghanies, as Mr. Dwight 
found it tolerably common about Cresson and in the valley at Altoona in summer. It was not met 
with on the North Mountain itself, but was seen in the valley eastward (Auk, ix. p.140). Mr. Baily 
says that in Northern Elk Co. one was seen above Straight Creek, and appeared to be nesting 
(Auk, xiii. p. 297). 
In the New England States Mr. Stearns says that the “ Veery " is the commonest of the Thrushes, 
always excepting the Robin, in Southern New England during the season. Like the Wood-Thrush, 
it is characteristic of the Alleghanian Fauna at such times, though it also extends sparingly into the 
Canadian, where the Hermit and the Olive-back are so abundant and characteristic. It enters 
Connecticut about the last week of April, and reaches Massachusetts early in May (New England 
Bird Life, i. p. 60). In Berkshire Co., Mass, Mr. Faxon found the species common in the 
lower cleared portions of the country, and observed it at least as high as 2000 feet from the sea-level 
on the cleared portions of the mountain side (Auk, vi. p. 106). Mr. Brewster has also noticed it 
nesting near Winchenden (Auk, v. p. 389). It also breeds in Maine (Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst. iii. 
p. 146), and was found by Mr. Batchelder on the Upper St. John River, nesting at Grand Falls in 
June, but rare in that neighbourhood. At Houlton it was a common breeding species (Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, vii. p. 108). Dr. Chadbourne has found it on the White Mountains in New Hampshire 
in summer (Auk, iv. p. 107), and Messrs. Faxon and Allen at Squam Lake and Franconia in June 
(Auk, iv. pp. 153, 155). 
In the other Eastern United States the present species occurs as a migrant, though Prof. Elliott 
Coues believes that some may winter in South Carolina (B. N.-West, p. 6). Mr. Brewster records 
the nesting of the Veery near Highlands, in Western North Carolina, where, he says, Mr. Boynton 
has repeatedly found the nest. It was abundant over the elevated plateau about Highlands, and 
scarcely less numerous on the Black Mountains, ranging in both localities from about 3500 to 5000 
feet (Auk, iii. p. 178). 
Wilson's Thrush appears to be a rare migrant in Texas, and the only example which I myself 
have seen from that State is T. salicicola. Mr. Attwater obtained a specimen near San Antonio on 
the 18th of May (Auk, ix. p. 344). In Houston Co., Mr. Nehrling observed a few during the fall 
migration (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 7). Dr. J. C. Merrill also met with it at Fort Brown on 
the 1st of January, 1877 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 119). 
Mr. J. A. Allen has recorded the species as a winter bird in Florida (Bull. Mus. C. 7. ii. p. 256), 
and Mr. Atkins has found it common at Key West on the Gulf coast of Florida on the 28th of 
