TUKUID.K — THE TIIUUSHES — TUKDUS. 5 



At Santa Cruz, on the 1st of June, I found several of their nests, all built 

 in thickets, under tlie sliade of cottunwood-trees, each about five feet above 

 the ground, and containing eggs in various stages of liatcliing, from two to 

 four in number, -tlie smaller numl)er probaldy laid after the destruction of 

 a first set. The nests were built of dry leaves, root fibres, grass, and bark, 

 without mud, lined with decayed leaves ; measuring outside 4 inches each 

 way, inside 2.50 wide and 0.20 deep. The eggs measured 0.90 X 0.70, and 

 were pale bluish green, speclded with cinnamon-brown, chieily at the larger 

 end. 



In 1S66, at Santa Cruz, I found nests with eggs about May 20th, one on 

 a horizontal branch not more than a foot from the ground, another on an 

 alder-tree fifteen feet up. After raising their young, they all left the 

 vicinity of the town, prubalily for the moister mountains, where food was 

 more plenty at the end of the dry .season. 



Turdus ustulatus, Nuttall. 



THE OREGON THRUSH. 



Turdus «s(«fa(»s, Nuttall, Man. Orn. I. (2d cil.) 1840, 400. Columbia River (jirinted ces- 

 tvlalus, by a typographical error). — B.\ird, P. R. Kep. IX. Birds uf N. Am. 21.^; 

 pi. 81, f. 2. — Ib. Rev. Araer. Birds, 1864, 18. — Cooi-er and Suckley, P. R. R. XII. 

 iii. Zool. ofW. T. 171. 



Sp. CuAii. Third and fourth (juills longest ; second intermediate between fourth and 

 fifth. Tail nearly even. Upper parts uniform reddish brown, with a liiint olivaceous 



tinge. Fore part of the breast tinged with lirinvnish yellow, becoming ]>aler to the chin : 

 the remaining under parts are white. The sides of the throat and the fore part of the 

 breast with small, distinct triangular spots of well-defined brown, much darker than the 



