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observed during the Survey until toward the close of the second season, when specimens were taken 
in the Rocky Mountains near Chief Mountain Lake, under circumstances which left no doubt of the 
breeding of the species іп that vicinity. As it is, however, a common species of wide distribution in 
North America, it is doubtless to be found, like the Robin [Merula migratoria], wherever timber 
grows, along the line of the northern boundary." 
In Manitoba it is a common summer resident, according to Mr. Ernest Thompson (Proc. U.S, 
Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 604). In Ontario Dr. Mellwraith records it as a migrant in spring and fall, 
arriving about the middle of April and departing about the 7th of May” (Proc. Essex Inst. v. p. 84). 
Dr. Hart Merriam found it breeding near Point de Monts in Quebec, in July (Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, vii. p. 284). Mr. Brewster found the species along the south shore of Labrador and again on 
Anticosti Island, where it was common (Proc. Bost. Soc. N. Н. xxii. p. 369); in the latter island it 
was also plentifully noticed by Mr. Verrill (op. ай. ix. p. 137). On the Magdalens Dr. Bishop found 
it common and breeding in July, and says that it was noticed on most of the islands (Auk, vi. 
p. 149). Тһе Hermit-Thrush was also observed everywhere in the Restigouche Valley in New 
Brunswick in July by Messrs. Brittain and Cox (Auk, vi. p. 119), and in Prince Edward Island and 
Cape Breton Island in summer by Mr. Dwight (Auk, iv. p. 16, x. p. 15). 
On the Upper St. John River Mr. Batchelder found the species breeding at Grand Falls on the 
30th of May (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 108), and it nests on the mountains of the New England 
States, whence there are numerous records from Maine to Connecticut, where Mr. Faxon found this 
Thrush abundant on Bear Mountain (Auk, vi. p. 46), and Mr. Treat obtained two nests at Norfolk in 
June (Sage, Auk, x. p. 371). 
The Hermit-Thrush also breeds in Pennsylvania. Mr. Dwight, in his paper on the summer 
birds of the Pennsylvania Alleghanies, writes as follows :—“ Among some scattered pines at the top 
of Wopsononock Mountain І found a pair feeding their young. As the abundance of this species 
can best be determined about sunset, when every male is pouring forth its evening song, І cannot 
say how abundant it is at this point. It was not encountered at Cresson, but in the deep woods 
of North Mountain it found a congenial home and was very numerous. Often it was possible to 
distinguish a dozen singing at the same time in the early morning or the late evening hours. 
There was an overhanging cliff commanding a deep, narrow valley, whence at sunset even a greater 
number might be heard, their notes blending with those of the Olive-backed and Wood Thrushes." 
Mr. Witmer Stone (Auk, xi. p. 182) records the species as a summer bird of the Pocono 
Mountains in Pennsylvania, and observes :—“ The elevation and location of the Pocono plateau is 
such as to warrant a fauna quite as local as that found at Нагуеув Lake and North Mountain 
(cf. Stone, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1891, p. 431).” It was abundant and breeding in Northern Elk Co., 
according to Mr. Baily (Auk, xiii. p. 296). Mr. Nehrling says that it is a rather common summer 
resident in the woods of central and northern Wisconsin ; and although in Minnesota it is principally 
known as a migrant, Dr. Hatch (B. Minnesota, р. 441) says that “ numbers enough remain during 
the summer.” Оп Mackinac Island in Northern Michigan, Mr. White states that the present 
species is a common summer resident (Auk, x. p. 230). 
In the Central United States the Hermit-Thrush is known as а migrant only. Such is the case 
in Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana ; but a few winter even as far north as the Hudson River (Mearns, 
Bull. Nutt. Club, iv. p. 33), and Mr. Nehrling says that they have also been known to winter in 
Southern Illinois and in the neighbourhood of Washington, D.C. 
А specimen from Quantico, Virginia (Feb. 22), is in the Henshaw Collection. In Kentucky it 
is a common migrant (Pindar, Auk, vi. p. 316), and in South Carolina Mr. Loomis records it as Very 
common in winter up to April 21 (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv. p. 210). In Alabama it was noticed 
by Mr. N. C. Brown from January 1st to April 30th (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii. p. 169), and in 
