THIRD ADDENDUM TO THE PRELIMINARY LIST 

 OF BIRDS ASCERTAINED TO OCCUR IN THE 

 ADIRONDACK REGION, NORTHEASTERN NEW 

 YORK.* 



BY C. HART MEKRIAM, M. D. 



206. Turdus alici^ bicknelli. Bicknell's Thrush. — In my cabinet is a 

 specimen of this recently described Thrush which I shot in Lewis County, 

 near the western border of the Adirondacks, May 34, 1S78. It is a male 

 of the preceding year and its scapulars still show several (four on one 

 side and one on the other) of the light tear-shaped spots so characteristic 

 of immaturity in this group of Thrushes. Following are its measure- 

 ments :— 



No. 1873 (Mus. C. H. M.) $ one year old, Lewis County, New York, 

 May 24, 1878. Length, 174 mm. (6.85 in.) ; extent, 293 mm. (11.53 i"-) ! 

 wing, 92.25 mm. (3.63 in.) ; tail, 70. mm. (2.75 in.) ; culmen from feathers, 

 12.50 mm. (.50 in.); culmen from base, 17 mm. (.66 in.); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 3.75 mm. (.15 in.); tarsus, 28.50 mm. (1.13 in.). 



It will thus be seen that this individual is smaller than the average of 

 the males of Mr. Bicknell's type specimens taken in the Catskills,* and is 

 also smaller than those killed by Mr. Brewster on Mt. Washington. f 

 AtLk, I, Jan,, 1884. p. 



* For the original list and first and second addenda, see Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol- 

 VI, No. 4, Oct. 18S1, pp. 225-235 ; Vol. VII, No. 2, April 1882, p. 128 ; Vol. VII, No. 4, 



Oct. 1882, pp. 256-257. 



* Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. IV, 1882, pp. 377-379- 



t Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII, Jan. 1883, pp. 12-17. ' 



LOQff iBland Bird N»ioa. Wm.Dutclxer 



23. Turdus aliciae bicknelli. Bicknell's Thrush.— With 

 a number of birds which were sent to me, that had been killed by 

 striking the Great West , Bay Light (Shinnecock Bay), Long 

 Island, on the night of October i, 1 881, were four Thrnshes, which 

 I labelled alicic,. Q^uie recently I submitted ihem to Mr. Bick- 

 nell who pronounced two of them to be undoubted examples of 

 the new variety d/ckne/lu^ ^ I have therefore the pleasure of ad. 

 ding another bird to the known avi-fauna of. Long Lsland. 



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Turdus ahcias bicknelli.— I shot two Bicknell's Thrushes on Oct. 5, 

 1892, at Rockaway Beach. They were not together, but at widely sepa- 

 rated parts of the Beach. I found them exceedingly shv, and it was onlv 

 after much watching and pursuing of all the Thrushes'that were noticed 

 that I secured them. Many Thrushes were observed, but no others of 

 any species were identified, for the cedars which grow on the Beach, and 

 the tangled thickets of briers, afford excellent concealment to ground- 

 loving birds, and in these spots they remained despite our most persistent 

 efforts to dislodge them. Hence it seems probable that some of these 

 others also were r. n. ^/c/i-?/c/// and that there was a small migration of 

 them at that time. 



I have already noted'' the capture of this bird at Rockaway Beach on 

 Oct. 5, 1889, and may mention the following cases of its occurrence in 

 this region. Mr. Wm. Dutcher writes.-"My Long Island records of 

 S/cfaeW are as follows : Oct. i, 1881, two, Shinnecock Light; Oct. 23, 

 i886, one, shot at Astoria; Sept. 23, 1887, one or more. Fire Island 

 Light; Sept. 18, 1889, one, Shinnecock Light. I believe them to be a 

 regular migrant but not nearly so abundant as alicim." Mr. L. S. Foster 

 writes me that he has three skins of this bird taken at the Statue of 

 Liberty, New York Harbor, one Sept. 18-19, 1889, the others Oct. 11-12, 

 1891. I believe with Mr. Dutcher that this subspecies is a regular, thouo-h 

 uncommon migrant.— Arthur M. Howell, Brooklyn, N. T. 



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