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a | 
Mr. Ragsdale in Cook Co., Texas (Auk, iii. p. 281). А specimen in the Salvin-Godman Collection 
nh | from Corpus Christi, procured on the 3rd of May by Mr. F. B. Armstrong, I also consider to be 
ші T. salicicola. 
сой І have already referred to a specimen from Camacusa, in British Guiana, in the Salvin-Godman 
TI Collection, as being apparently referable to 7. salicicola; and, according to Dr. 7. A. Allen, an 
T undoubted example was procured at Chapada, in Matto Grosso, in March by Mrs. Herbert Smith 
T (Bull. Amer. Mus. iii. p. 340). 
inh The following note by Dr. Elliott Coues on Turdus fuscescens (Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 550) 
m must, I think, refer to the Willow-Thrush, although Mr. Ridgway has identified one of the Pembina 
n specimens as the true 7. fuscescens. Dr. Coues writes:—'*In the vicinity of Pembina it was found 
breeding in abundance during the month of June, where its exquisite song enlivened the tangled 
Y recesses of the wooded river-bottom, in which the timid birds secreted themselves, and formed one 
, в of the most characteristic pieces of bird-melody to be heard in that ill-favoured locality. А nest was 
m found on the 9th of June, containing four fresh eggs, uniform bluish-green in colour, and measuring 
E about 0:86 inch by 0:66 inch in diameter. It was placed upon a small heap of decayed leaves which 
ж had been caught оп the footstalks of a bush a few inches from the ground, and composed of weed- 
я stems, grasses, and fibrous bark-strips, woven together and mixed with withered leaves. The walls 
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were thick, giving a bulky, irregular, and rather slovenly appearance, and causing the cavity to 
3 appear comparatively small,—it was only about 24 inches in diameter by less than 2 inches in depth, 
though the whole nest was as large as a child's head." 
Mr. R. S. Williams, in his notes on the birds of Montana (Auk, vii. p. 292, 1890), writes of 
the present species :—“ The commonest and most widely distributed of the Thrushes in Montana, 
It finds favourite nesting-sites all along the valley-streams in thickets of willow, rose, box-elder, &c., 
that, as the summer advances, become almost impenetrable with a rank growth of weeds. From 
such localities its song is often heard on its first arrival, but later little else than its loud plaintive 
call-note greets the listener’s ear, and one may spend many a fruitless moment in trying to obtain a 
fair glimpse of the wary little inhabitant of the secluded covert. From the lower valleys this species 
ranges up to the mountain foot-hills and сайопв, but I have never seen it far from water, or more 
than a few yards above the earth, and never in heavy evergreen timber.” 
Seebohm did not consider T. salicicola to be distinct from T. fuscescens, and did not include it 
in the illustrations of the present Monograph. (В. В. S.J 
