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afforded on the Bering Sea coast north of Bristol Bay; hence the Robins are limited to Ше interior 
at this season. There is one exception, however, on the north coast of Norton Sound, where the 
spruce-forest approaches the sea, and here they are found in summer. Such stragglers as are found 
in the vicinity of St. Michael's, numbering several every summer, usually approach the houses for 
food in early spring and remain but a few hours. They are rather suspicious and easily alarmed, 
and all I saw were invariably silent, apparently depressed by the forbidding surroundings, and 
inclined to hasten back to the more hospitable region in the interior. Their nests and nesting-habits 
are precisely the same in the north as they are in their southern locations, except that in the north they 
are limited more strictly to the wild woods. АП the considerable series brought home by me are 
typical of the eastern form, and not one is referable to the western M. propinqua. They are unknown 
on the Aleutian and other islands in Bering Sea, except occasionally on the Seal Islands, as 
mentioned." 
Mr. R. Macfarlane records the species as breeding near Fort Anderson in Arctic America, and 
says that a few were also met with on the banks of the Swan and Wilmot-Horton Rivers, in the 
Barren Grounds (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 445). The British Museum contains a specimen from 
Hudson's Bay, where Sir George Back procured one at Fort Franklin ; and it seems to be distributed 
across the continent, as it breeds in Labrador. Here Mr. W. A. Stearns says that he saw a small 
flock of these Thrushes at Old Fort Bay on the 10th of October, 1881, and also shot a specimen on 
the 26th of April, 1882. Не also found them breeding in the interior in June of the same year 
(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 116, 1883). Mr. Lucien Turner (op. cit. viii. p. 235) states that he 
found the species abundant throughout the country, and breeding plentifully at Fort Chimo, Ungava. 
Mr. Hagerup records it as an occasional visitant to South Greenland (B. Greenl. p. 62). 
The breeding-range of the species likewise extends throughout Canada; and in Manitoba 
Mr. Ernest Thompson says that it is a common summer resident in half-open woods, and it is also a 
plentiful migrant, as well as a breeding bird (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 364). Blakiston found it 
breeding at the Forks of the Saskatchewan (Ibis, 1862, p. 4), and specimens presented by 
Mr. B. R. Ross from the Salt River and Fort Simpson are in the British Museum. 
Тһе Seebohm Collection contains old and young birds from Toronto, sent by Mr. James Whitely, 
and Mr. J. H. Fleming has presented to the British Museum several specimens from the same 
district. At Point du Monts, in Quebec, Dr. C. H. Merriam found the Robin to be a * common 
summer resident, arriving about the 186 of May and remaining till late in November, one being 
seen as late as December" (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 234). 
Messrs. Brittain and Cox (Auk, vi. p. 119) state that it was very common in summer in the 
Restigouche Valley in New Brunswick, and Mr. Batchelder noticed it on the Upper St. John River. 
It was rather common at Fort Fairfield, and was abundant everywhere at Grand Falls (Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, vii. p. 108). Mr. Dwight says that it is abundant in the more open country in summer 
on Prince Edward's Island (Auk, x. p. 15), and Dr. Bishop found it very plentiful on the Magdalen 
Islands and breeding everywhere (Auk, vi. p. 150). | 
The Robin is a common summer resident in the New England States (Stearns, New England 
Bird-Life, i. p. 1). In the District of Columbia it is a common bird, beginning to nest about the 
middle of April (Richmond, Auk, v. p. 25). Mr. Warren states that the Robin is abundant 
throughout Pennsylvania during the spring, summer, and autumn (B. Pennsylvania, p. 224), a few 
also wintering in the State. Mr. Baily found the species very common all over the open upland 
in Northern Elk County in June and July (Auk, xiii. p. 297), and Mr. Dwight, in his paper on the 
« Summer Birds of the Pennsylvania Alleghanies," says that it was abundant everywhere except in 
the deep woods (Auk, ix. p. 141). In Ohio, Mr. Oberholzer says that it is an abundant summer 
visitor, a few sometimes remaining over winter (B. Wayne Co. p. 338). Several specimens from 
