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breeding-home. Mr. Thompson says that in Manitoba it is а common migrant across the 
Big Plain (Auk, ііі. p. 328, and Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 633), and it has been noticed 
by Mr. Thorne at Fort Keogh in Montana in May, but it is rare in the vicinity and only one 
female specimen was procured (Auk, xii. p. 218). It will doubtless be observed on migration 
in some of the other States, but it would appear that its line of route is to the eastward of the 
Missouri, as it is recorded by Nehrling as passing through Northern Illinois late in September, - 
and arriving in the last days of April (N. Amer. Birds, p. 14). Dr. Hatch says that in Minnesota 
it arrives about the 104Һ of May, and has so far been only met with on migration, though 
he has reason to think that it may turn out to be a summer resident in some localities 
(B. Minnesota, p. 438). In the Eastern United States Turdus alícia is spoken of only as a 
migrant passing through Tennessee, South Carolina, and Louisiana, to Florida and the Greater 
Antilles. In Florida Mr. Scott records it as a migrant in the Caloosahatchie Region (Auk, 
ix. p. 214), and he met with it at Tarpon Springs in April (Auk, vii. p. 119), but he states 
that it has not been recorded from Punta Rassa or from Key West. Specimens from Corpus 
Christi in Texas are in the Salvin-Godman Collection ; they were procured by Mr. F. B. Armstrong 
in April and October. Near San Antonio Mr. Attwater found the present ‘species a common 
migrant (Auk, ix. p. 344). 
Mr. Cory, in his ‘List of the Birds of the West-Indian Islands, records the Grey-cheeked 
Thrush from Cuba and St. Domingo, and its line of migration passes along the islands of the 
Bay of Honduras, as Dr. Gaumer has procured specimens in Cozumel and Ruatan (Salvin, 
Ibis, 1888, p. 243). Хо specimen has yet been recorded from any part of Mexico, but there is 
a single example in the Sclater Collection in the British Museum, said to have been obtained 
in Guatemala by Skinner, and Lawrence has recorded another as having been obtained by 
Von Frantzius in Costa Rica (Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 91). Arcé procured a specimen of this 
species on the Volcano of Chiriqui in Panama (Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 180), and it extends 
to Colombia, as there is an example from Bogotá in the Seebohm Collection. Count Von Berlepsch 
has presented a Venezuelan specimen to the British Museum, and Whitely obtained Turdus alicia 
in British Guiana at Bartica Grove in February, at Camacusa in March, and on the Carimang 
River in December (Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 197). That it goes to Amazonia in winter is 
also shown by a specimen procured by Mr. Edward Bartlett at Chamicuros on the 20th of March, 
1868 (Scl. & Salv. Р. Z. S. 1873, p. 255, s. n. 7. swainsoni). 
Dr. Brewer, in the * History of North American Birds, gives the following note on the 
habits of the species:—“ Turdus alicie comes a few days the earlier, and is often in full 
song when 7. swainsoni is silent. Тһе song of the former is not only different from that 
of the latter, but also from that of all our other Wood-Thrushes. 1% most resembles the song 
of T. райазі, but differs in being its exact inverse, for whereas the latter begins with its 
lowest notes and proceeds on an ascending scale, the former begins with its highest and concludes 
with its lowest note. The song of T. swainsoni, on the other band, exhibits much less variation in 
the scale, all the notes being of the same altitude. Таш also informed that while the 7. swainsoni 
is far from being a timid species, but may be easily approached, and while it seems almost 
invariably to prefer the edges of the pine-woods, and is rarely observed in open grounds 
or among the bare deciduous trees, the habits of 7. alicia are the exact reverse in these 
respects. It is not to be found in similar situations, but almost always frequents copses of 
hard wood, searching for its food among their fallen leaves. It is extremely timid and difficult 
to approach. Ав it stands or as it moves upon the ground, it has a peculiar erectness of 
bearing which at once indicates its true specific character so unmistakably that any one once 
familiar with its appearance can never mistake it for 7. swainsoni nor for any other bird ” 
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