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may rightly claim to rank as the most gifted of our summer songsters. (See 

 group, second floor. ) 



Wilson's Thrush (Hylocichla fusccsccns). Wilson's Thrush, or the Veery, 

 as it is better called, is a common summer resident, arriving about May i and 

 remaining until September. (See group, third floor.) 



Gray-cheeked Thrush {Hylocichla alicicc). A common migrant, passing 

 n( rthward in May and southward in September and October. 



Bicknell's Thrush (Hylociclila bicknelli). So far as records go, this is a 

 rather rare migrant, occurring in ]\Iay and September and October. Intt c:ireful 

 search will doubtless show it to be more common than is generally supposed. 



Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata siwiinsoni). The Olive-backed 

 Thrush is a common migrant in this vicinity. It passes northward in May 

 and southward in September and October. 



Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata fallasi.) An abundant migrant and 

 occasionally is found in small numbers during the winter. In the spring it 

 passes northward between April lo and May i ; its fall migration takes place 

 between October i and November i. There is a record of its probable breeding 

 at Lake Ronkonkoma, L. I. ( Dutcher, Auk. Ill, i?86. p. 443). 



American Robin (Merula inigratorio). The Robin is our most abundant 

 summer resident, and in favorable localities a few may be found in the winter 

 Migrants begin to arrive toward the last of February, and the species is abundant 

 until December. (See group, third floor.) 



Varied Thrush (Ixoreus ncEvius subs[>. .' ) . The local status of this 

 Pacific coast bird appears to be well stated in Coues" "Birds of the Colorado 

 Valley,"' where George N. Lawrence is quoted as follows : 



"Besides Cabot's New Jersey example, two others have been procured near 

 New York City — one at Islip, Long Island, shot in the fall, in company with 

 Robins, and now in the possession of the person who secured it, the other at 

 Hoboken, New Jersey. Both were received in the flesh by Mr. J. Akhurst, to be 

 mounted; the Hoboken one was subsequently destroyed by fire in the taxider- 

 mist's workshop. All the specimen's in my own cabinet cauie from the Pacific 

 side." 



The Cabot specimen mentioned above by Lawrence is possibly the one 

 referred to by Turnbull (Birds of East. Penn. and N. J.), but without data. 



Wheatear (Sa.ricola ananthe Icucorhoa). This northern species is of acci- 

 dental occurrence in this vicinity: it has been twice recorded from Long Island 

 (Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1886, p. 282; Dutcher, Auk, X, 1893, 

 P- 277.) 



Bluebird (Sialia sialis). The Bluebird is here a common summer resident, 

 an abimdarit migrant, and not infrequent winter resident. Migrants begin to 

 arrive from the south early in Alarch. 



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