PASSEEES TUKDIDAE OEEOSCOPTES MONTANUS. 



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still cling to the place which the memory of past joys has endeared to them. 

 This attachment to locality is well illustrated by a nest of this species found 

 lii-re, which had been modeled in and above the one of the previous season. 

 Doubtless, the same pair, returning and finding the old home too dilapidated 

 for repairs, had thus obviated the necessity for a removal to a perhaps in 

 their eyes less favored spot. Eggs blue, slightly darker than those of the 

 Audubon's Thrush. 



OREO3COPTES MONTANUS, Towns. 



Sage Thrasher. 



Orpheus montanus, TowNSEND, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, ii, 1837, 192. 



Mitnus montanus, WOODH., Sitgr. Exp. Zuui & Col. Eiv., 1854, 73. HEERM., P. B. E. 

 Eep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 44. 



Oreoscoptes montanus, BD., Ires' Colorado, 1857-58, pt. iv, 6. Id., B. X. A., l*.~i^. 

 347. KEENER LY, P. E. E, Ecp.,Wbipp. Eoute, 1859, 25. BD., Mex. B. 

 Sarv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, birds, 12. HENRY, Proc. Ac-ad. Xat. Sci., Phila., ls.">0. 

 107 (Xew Mexico). HAYD., Trans. Phil. Soc., vol. 12, 1SG2, 163. BD., Ecv. 

 A. B., i, 1864, 43. Cs., Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 65 (Arizona 

 generally). STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 464 (Wyoming). COOP., 

 Pr. Cal. Acad., 1870, 75 (Colorado Elver). Id., B. Cal., i, 1870, 13. HOLD., 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist., 1872, 194 (Black Hills). ALLEN, B. M. C. Z., 

 iii, 1872, 174 (west edge of the plains, Colo.; Ogden, Utah). Cs., Key, 1872. 

 74. MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 670. ALLEN, Proe. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 19. BD., B. & E..N. A. B., i, 1874, 32, pi. iii, 

 f. 6. YARROW, Eep. Orn. Sp., Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 34. YARROW \ 

 HENSHAW, Eep. Orn. Sp., 1872, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 6. HENSHAW, Eep. 

 Orn. Sp., 1873, Wheeler's Exp., 1S74, 71, 97. Id., An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874. Id., An. List B. U., 1872, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 40. Cs., U. S. 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., B. N. W.. 1874, 7. 



Through nearly every portion of the country traversed by the survey 

 each season, this thrush lias been found common. As an expression of the 

 peculiar localities favored by this bird, and its powers of song, the name of 



