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stems, etc., lined with roots and grape-vine 

 bark ; 3 half grown young. 



Second. A few days later, in scrub oak 5 

 feet up, 4 young. 



Third. May 28, 1890, 8 feet up in a dog- 

 wood tree ; 4 eggs, color, greyish blue, blotched 

 with chestnut red or yellowish brown. 



Measure, .90 x. 71, .89 x .70, .90 x 72, .91 



X.73- 



Has obsened the birds several times in 



hazel thickets last summer. 



G. C. Pearson. No. 40. 



Was at one time common, but now only 

 occasionally met with. 



CJi aides Wells. No. 45. 



Has not met it. 



W.L.Jones. No. 75. 



Resident. Breeds in hedges, and pastures 

 where there are crab-apple trees. 



C. B. Vandercook. No. 77. 



Rare resident. Noted on October 16, 

 1886 (i) ; April 21 (i) ; April 8, 1889 (i) ; 

 October 11, 1889 (i) ; March 23, 1890 (i) ; 

 December 9, 1890 (i); January 7, 1891 

 (i) ; December 24, 1892 (i). Has exam- 

 ined 8 nests, all placed in hedges or brush 

 piles, made of twigs, fine grass, rabbit's or 

 horse hair and hempen fibers. Size outside, 

 4 inches deep ; diameter, 8 inches ; inside, 

 3 inches deep, lYz inches diameter. 



Set, 3 or 4 eggs; average size, .93X.74; 

 color, pale greenish, marked with large and 

 small spots of chestnut. 



Set 1-3, April 28, 1892; set 1-4, May i, 

 1892. 



Rev. J. C. Elliott. No. 88. 



Summer resident. Not so common as 

 formerly. Nests in osage orange hedges, 

 sometimes in orchards. 



G. W. Rcarclc7i. No. 92. 



Resident. Tolerably common. 



Nests usually in haw trees, crab-apple trees, 

 brush heaps, etc. Nests are usually one-half 

 mile apart. Build from 2 to 15 feet from 

 ground. 



Nest about 1st of May. 



Set, 3 to 5 ; average 3. Color, dirty gray- 



ish brown, profusely speckled with darker 

 brown. 



One pair raised broods in his garden last 

 year. 



O. Widmann, Old Orchard, Mo. 



Well known inhabitant. Met with at all 

 months of the year. Cannot stand severe 

 winters. 



Arrives from middle of March to middle 

 of May ; in some years full numbers do not 

 arrive until June. The first song has been 

 heard as early as February 17, after a mild 

 winter, but in 15 years nine dates for first 

 song are found as late as April and some- 

 times not until the latter part of it. As a 

 rule first song is not far from date of arrival, 

 but sometimes they keep silent for over a 

 week. They sing all summer, even in hottest 

 days of July. 



Has never heard the song betvveen August 

 4 and October 6, but from that date to Nov- 

 ember 1 7 they are not infrequently heard to 

 practice. Is not sure that they make two 

 successful broods in a year, because all early 

 broods that came to his knowledge came to 

 an untimely end. 



P/iilo Smith, St, Louis. No. 74, Bond 

 County. 



Resident, but not common. 



Nests ; seems to prefer osage orange hedges. 

 A large bulky nest, like Brown Thrush, 3 to 

 7 feet from ground. Found from May 5 to 

 June 10, the last being second set. Set, 4 

 and 5. 



C. P. Foil-, Wayland, Mo. 



Summer resident. Not abundant. 



Arri\e May i st, leave about August i st. 



Breed sjjaringly. 



May 10, 1887, 1-4, in wild plum tree, 6 

 feet from ground, comiiosed of twigs, weed 

 stalks, grasses, etc., lined with wool ; roughly 

 made. 



Young were taken from the nest, caged 

 and hung on a porch, where the old birds 

 continued to feed them. 



At the same time a second nest was made, 

 similar to first, in a plum bush 30 feet from 



