Auk, XV, Jan., 1898, pp.&o-/. 



Bicknell's Thrush on Mt. Ktaadn, Maine.— On June 22 and 23, 1897, I 

 made a short visit to Mt. Ktaadn, Maine, partly for the purpose of orni- 

 thological observation. On the 22d I heard three Bicknell's Thrushes 

 (Turdus alicicE bicknelli) singing, along the Southwest Slide, and on the 

 23d I heard the same three and two more besides, one pretty well up the 



Slide and the other on the Table Land at an altitude of a few hundred feet 

 lower than the top of the highest peak (5,215 feet). Unfortunately I was 

 unable to obtain a specimen, but a familiarity with the song of this bird 

 acquired in the White Mountains and during the migrations, leaves no 

 doubt whatever in my own mind of the identification. This subspecies 

 has never been reported from Maine, I believe, though it is included in 

 the 'hypothetical' list in Mr. Ora W. Knight's recent list of Maine birds. 

 The only other birds noted on the mountain which I did not also find in 

 the lowlands about there were Dendroica striata, which were common 

 along the Slide, and Dendragaptcs canadensis, one female of which I 

 observed on the Slide. Ktaadn affords but little cover for birds, the upper 

 three thousand feet being for the most part very steep and rocky, giving 

 no chance for trees. The trees along the Slide are almost entirely decidu- 

 ous, and no coniferous woods were to be seen at any height except those in 

 the great South Basin on the northeast side of the mountain, about 2300 feet 

 below the highest summit or about 3000 feet above sea-level. It is quite 

 possible that these Basin woods may have contained some more northern 

 forms, but I was unable to visit them. Some one should go there in the 

 breeding season. The Basin is best visited from the east side. The scrub 

 fir on the Table Land harbored Turdus alicice bicknelli and Zonotrichia 

 albicoUis, and doubtless /zi«co hyemalis too, but it is too low to make very 

 good cover,— Francis H. Allen, West Roxbury, Mass. 



