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entire Yukon, and other streams bordered by trees or 
t abundance during the breeding-season. It extends 
even beyond the tree-limit, wherever a bunch of dwarf willows will give it shelter, to the very 
shores of the Arctic and Bering Seas. On the 15% of June, 1879, as І came down the Yukon by | 
boat, large numbers of their nests were seen in the leafless bushes along the river-banks. А number 
of these nests were close to the ground, within 2 or 3 feet, while others were from 8 to 12 feet 
high at the division of two stout branches, where the compact structure of fine grass and leaves was 
plaeed. Тһе species reaches the mouth of the Yukon and adjacent coast in large numbers 
about the last of May or the first of June. Тһе earliest arrival which I have recorded is on 
the 24th of May. They are soon found in every thicket, whence their low sweet song is 
frequently heard, but they are very shy and, at the first alarm, dive into the dense bushes for 
shelter. As soon as the breeding-season is over, they become less retiring and frequent the 
vicinity of villages and more open spots, where many are killed by the native boys, armed 
with their bows and arrows. Their skins are removed and hung in rows or bunches to dry 
in the smoky huts, and are preserved as trophies of the young hunters prowess. In the winter 
festivals, when the older hunters bring out the trophies of their skill, the boys proudly display 
the skins of these Thrushes and hang them alongside. 
«On the sea-coast every alder-patch has a pair or more o 
of the species at Sitka and Kodiak is attested by many specimens 
(Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, p. 216.) 
The Grey-cheeked Thrush is said to be very abundant on the Anderson and Coppermine 
Rivers by Mr. Macfarlane, not only where trees are to be had for nesting purposes, but also in 
situations where none exist. One nest was taken by him on Wilmot-Horton River (Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. xiv. p. 445, 1891). 
Bering Straits and beyond. Along the 
bushes in this region, it is present in grea 
f these birds, and the presence 
in the U.S. National Museum." 
In the Slave Lake Region, Dr. Brewer states that 7. swainsoni, and not T. alicie, is the 
Museum from Repulse Bay, collected by 
predominant species. А specimen is in the British 
Dr. Rae, and Mr. Eagle Clarke has recorded the species from Fort Churchill, Hudson’s Bay 
(Auk, vii. p. 322). Іп Labrador, Professor Elliott Coues found it nesting commonly (Proc. 
Philad. Acad. 1861, p. 217), and Mr. L. M. Turner says that it is common in eastern and 
er, and 
south-eastern Labrador, but is rare in Ungava. It breeds wherever it occurs in summ 
a nest and eggs were taken by him at Fort Chimo on the 28th of June, 1884 (Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. viii. p. 235, 1885). Dr. Bishop has procured specimens on the Magdalen Islands in July, 
where he believes the species to have been breeding (Auk, vi. p. 149). Mr. Bolles observed 
it on Cape Breton Island in August, and Mr. F. H. Allen, who records this occurrence, 
believes that it may be a migrant there (Auk, xii. p. 90), if, indeed, it be not the race known as 
T. bicknelli. Mr. Palmer obtained full-grown young birds in Canada Bay, Newfoundland, in July 
(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 265). 
Allowing that the specimens from the last 
by the American naturalists, and of this there can hardly be a do 
breeding of the so-called Turdus bicknelli on the islands off Nova Scotia 
ranges of these two forms of Grey-cheeked Thrush in rather close proximity, and it is very 
doubtful if they are really separable from each other. According to Mr. Hagerup (B. Greenl. 
p. 61), Т. alicia is “a chance visitor to South Greenland. Mr. Benzon possesses a specimen 
procured in August, 1862." 
Тһе present species is 
` Mellwraith (B. Ontario, p. 407), as it is also throughout th 
it appears to remain in some localities for several weeks before finally 
-named localities have been correctly identified 
ubt, it will be seen that the 
brings the nesting- 
recorded as a migrant in spring and autumn in Ontario, according to 
e greater part of the United States, and 
departing for its northern 
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