Hylocichla fuscescens fuliginosa, subsp. nov. 



Tyfe, from Codroj, Newfoundland, No. 46260, adult. Coll. of Wil- 

 liam Brewster. Collected May 31, 1895, by Ernest Doane. 



Geografhical — Newfoundland (also possibly Anticosti and 



Labrador). 



Subspecific Characters.— Size slightly larger. Upper parts, especially 

 on the head, distinctly bro-wnish, much darker and not of the tawny shade 

 of typical fuscescens, and lacking the greenish tinge of salicicola. Throat, 

 lores, and upper breast suffused with buff, though perhaps less so than in 

 fuscescens (in salicicola buff is practically absent), the upper breast and 

 usually also the throat spotted heavily with broad arrow-shaped brown 

 markings suggesting very strongly the throat and breast of H. u. svjain- 

 sonii. The breast markings of both fuscescens and salicicola are narrow 

 and more penciled and lighter in shade. Bill darker and heavier.' 



Remarks. — The two specimens already recorded from Rhode 

 Island, and the ones from Ottawa, Ontario, are referable to this 

 race, as is also a male kindly loaned me by Dr. Louis B. Bishop, 

 taken at New Haven, Conn., on September 23, 1895. The spec- 

 imen recorded from Chester, South Carolina, is probably referable 

 to this new race, rather than to salicicola. Another specimen sent 

 me by Dr. Bishop from the Magdelen Islands, taken June 13, 1887, 

 is intermediate between fuscescens and fuliginosa, although diffi- 

 cult to determine on account of being in worn, breeding plumage. 

 Dr. Bishop has also kindly sent me an adult male (No 41 16) 

 taken May 6, 1899, in New Haven County, Conn., and an adult 

 female (No. 4950) taken May 16, 1900, in the same locality, both 

 referable to fuliginosa, and the first spring specimens from New 

 Engla nd I have seen. 



' For measurements see Tables with former paper. Auk, Vol. XVII, No. 

 I. PP- 22, 33. ^^jj.^ July, 1900. p;-. XJ'>-V/I 



The Newfoundland Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuliginosa) in Massa- 

 chusetts. — On the 27th of last September I shot a specimen of this lately 

 described bird in Lanesboro, Berkshire Co., Mass., — the first example 

 taken in this State. The four autumnal records for New England fall 

 within the narrow limits of five days (Sept. 23-27), and indicate a migra- 

 tion through this region considerably later than the departure of the native 

 Veeries for the South. In 1889 I killed a Veery in Waltham, Mass., on 

 the extraordinarily late date, Oct. 5. This bird was unfortunately not pre- 

 served, but without much doubt it belonged to the race fuliginosa. — Wal- 

 ter Faxon, Museum of Comparative Zo'ology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Auk , XVIII, April., 1901, P' . ' ? ^ • 



Hylocichla fuscescens fuliginosa. — In this same hotise T discovered a 

 specimen of the Newfoundland Thrush, taken also near Lowell, a num- 

 ber of autumns ago. This is the second record for the State. — Reginald 

 Heber Howe, Jr., Long-Mood, Mass. 



Auk^ XIX, Jan., 1902, p • f ^ > 



