Hylocicbla fuscescens fuscescens. Wilson's Thrush. — Though it 

 is not my desire to question the ruling of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, yet the long sought opportunity to hear the bird inhabiting New- 

 foundland has at last been gratified, and I am more strongly convinced 

 than ever that my fuUginosa is distinct. Its darker coloring leads one at 

 sight to confuse it with the Ohve-back, and I had to shoot the bird in one 

 case to be positive of my identification. Its call note pheu has what seems 

 to me quite a different quality, and its song, if my birds were not peculiar, 

 instead of being an uninterrupted performance is divided into three dis- 

 tinct parts, and unlike any Veery song I have ever heard in New England. 

 I listened to several birds singing near the mouth of Harry's Brook, and I 

 believe the difference would be noted by any one familiar with the stereo- 

 typed song. — R. Heber Howe, Jr., Thoreau Museum, Concord, Mass, 



