annunei' Birds of StidbTiry, Out. 

 759b. Hermit Thrush. Tolerably common. 



Birds -within Ten ITiles of Point 

 de Monts, Can, Comeau & Merriam 



2. Turdus tmalascas nanus. Hermit Thrush.— Tolerably comrr 

 breeds. 



BuU. N.O.Oi '7,,Oot, 1882. p,234 



Ornithological Trip to St. Bruno, P. Q. 

 Msy 1885. B. D. "Wintle, Mo'-t,r«^a!. 

 Hermit Thrush, scarce. Found a nest contain- • 

 ing four eggs incubated; bird on the nest was 

 identified. It was well concealed in a grassy 

 bank on the outskirt of a woody i-idgc. This bird 

 was remarkably shy when I approached the nest, 

 which I did several times. It would slip quickly 

 off the nest and then keep out of sight until I hid 

 my.self, when it would return to the nest. 



O.&O. XI. May. 1686. p. 



288. Hylocichla guttata pallasii. Hermit Thrush. — Abundant mi- 

 grant, April 13 to May 10, and September 23 to October 23; earliest 

 spring record, April 8, 1898; earliest fall record, September 19, 1906; 

 there are several late records (November 20, 1901), and Dr. K. C. Mcllwraith 

 observed one from November 21, 1903, to the following January. 



Last Dates Migratory Birds observed by 

 B. D. Wintle, FalI1885, Montreal, Can, 



■ I ^. Her- niit Thrush 

 ■ O.&O. XI.Mar.l886.p.//4,. 



D-Aishv, : -uuiKio* £irds of 

 Prince Bdward leUmd. 



Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii. Hermit ' Thrush. — Slightly more 

 abundant than the preceding species, and perhaps more generally dis- 

 tributed. The songs and notes of this species have been so frequently 

 confused with those of other Thrushes, particularly with those of the 

 Olive-backed Tln-ush, that an eflfort on my part to call attention to the 

 differences that exist between them may not be without interest. The 

 deliberate character of its song is in marked contrast to that q{ s-wainsouii 

 audits musical ability is more varied. The usual song dies out without 

 the rising inflection of sivamsonii, and there is a pause after the first syl- 

 lable, while ill swaiiisonii there is no pause and the second syllable is 

 strongly accented, the whole song being quickly delivered. The Hermit 

 Thrush has also a nasal note of complaint in two ellided syllables, a cluck 

 like a Blackbird, and a lisp not unlike a Cedarbird. The nasal note has 

 its counterpart in swainsonii which utters a similar, but more liquid 

 note, and the cluck of fallasii ma.y be compared with a 'puk' or 'pink' (as 

 near as it can be represented) of s-wainsonii. Tiie lisp is peculiar to 

 pallasii, while there is a queer multiple note of soliloquy peculiar to 



Auk X, Jan, 1893. 



