170 
by Mr. Ridgway š 
Washington, D.C. (May 17, 1884), and from Chicago (E. W. Nelson). Mr. Loomis records it from 
Chester Co., N. Carolina, on May 6th, on the northward migration, and again on the voyage south, 
on the 17th of September; and the winter route of the small race of the Grey-cheeked Thrush is 
marked by him through South Carolina by its occurrence there on the 17th of September, and again 
on the spring migration оп May 6th (Auk, iv. p. 261). The only time that the bird has been 
recorded from further south is by Mr. Cory (Auk, viii. p. 178), who has received specimens from 
Cay Sal in the Bahamas, procured by Mr. Cyrus S. Winch in May 1891. 
That 7. alicie and T. bicknelli nest іп nearly the same latitudes is admitted in the above notes 
from Nova Scotia, and it seems more than probable that in the mountains of New England 
the latter bird finds the same conditions of climate during the breeding-season that other individuals 
obtain further to the north, and I have grave doubts as to T. bicknelli being really separable from 
T. alicie. 
Mr. Bicknell has described the finding of this small Thrush in the following interesting 
account :— 
“That there remained unrecognized at this late day a bird regularly inhabiting one of the most 
populous portions of our country; or, indeed, that a species of eminently boreal habitat during its 
breeding-season, and not known to occur at all at such time within the limits of the United States, 
should have a representative race regularly breeding in our midst, are facts for which we were little 
prepared... . . On June 15, 1881, nearing the summit (the highest peak of the Catskills, 4205 
feet altitude) of Slide Mountain in Ulster County (N.Y.) the forests of a more northern latitude 
were forcibly suggested. А shower had fallen during the ascent, and the sun was still obscured, 
whilé a sharp wind from the north-west piercing the wet woods and sighing among the balsams, 
blasted the weather-beaten, heightened an impression of remoteness and desolation. The evergreens, 
constituting the principal arboreal growth, extended off on all sides, clothing the rocky and moss- 
grown slopes, and presenting the striking contrast of a young and fragrant second growth clustering 
about the branchless and spiny trunks of their sires tottering in decay; or, with tangled and matted 
branches outlined here and there, as we approached the summit, against a grey and cheerless sky. 
Owing to the comparatively short life of these trees, that high portion of the mountain where their 
tribe had pitched was brought into grim contrast with its surroundings. Old age and death, 
continually present invading their ranks, had everywhere left their traces ; flourishing clusters had 
been stricken, their fellowship, groups and gatherings had been divided and scattered, and like a 
contagion the destroyer had spread among their hosts. But the younger generations are continually 
forming their associations, and with green and fragrant grouping filling in deserted chambers 
and screening the devastation that has gone before, although only to furnish material for its 
continuance. АП this with an occasional undergrowth of greater or less luxuriance, gave а diversified 
and somewhat open character to the surroundings, entirely dissimilar to that of the environing forest ; 
conditions which, in conjunction with humidity and elevation, have brought this mountain top into 
some relation with the swampland of a more northern region. Reaching a more elevated portion of 
the ridge where the ground was more level and the surface less rocky, that north-woods tree, the 
paper birch (Betula papyracea) occasionally appeared, and more abundantly the mountain ash. 
Almost the only remnant of the dense mountain forests below was tlie yellow birch (Betula lutea), 
which, joining the undergrowth, persisted with small and stunted stature to the summit. On all 
sides were to be seen the white blossoms of Vidurnum lantanoides, which, though also found in the 
valley woodlands, had there long since flowered and was now bearing green fruit. Another 
characteristic shrub was Amelanchier canadensis oligocarpa ; lower down had been found the 
