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us, confining itself almost entirely during the breeding season to 

 the garden or orchard, was extremely numerous, but had appar- 

 ently lost its desire for human society. We found it nesting 

 everywhere, in the thickest woods and most secluded pastures, 

 much oftener than in the neighborhood of houses. The eggs of 

 the second brood were already laid, and incubation commenced 

 by the 25ih of June. 



Tur^dus olivaceus. One specimen was seen at Long Island, 

 Manan, and another at the Big Mud, Yarmouth. Its note differs 

 entirely from that of the T. soUtarius ; it also differs very much 

 in its habits, the latter species being generally seen on the 

 ground, while the olivaceous Thrush prefers to procure its food 

 among the branches. The one seen at Big Mud was perched on 

 the top of a small dwarf-fir, and was hunting the passing insects, 

 with all the dexterity of a typical ilycatcher. 



Tardus soUtarius. Very numerous. The plumage of the old 

 birds was much worn by rubbing against the thick bushes that 

 they principally inhabit; there was also much less of the yellow- 

 ish tint on the breast than oil specimens procured at other locali- 

 ties. The first brood had already left the parent birds. One 

 procured on the 27th of June, was fully fledged, but so unlike 

 the adult that I append a description of it : Wings, tail, and 

 greater wing-coverts as in adult. Rump reddish-brown, with light 

 yellowish-brown spots, most distinct towards the back. All the 

 rest of the upper parts olive-brown, with a long lanceolate whitish 

 spot in the centre of each feather, and the tip blackish-brown. 

 Smaller wing-coverts ferruginous-brown, with spots of light yel- 

 lowish-white, in the centre of each feather, occupying the greater 

 part of the tip, and running to a point towards the base. Throat 

 whitish in the centre, a black line on each side from the base of 

 lower mandible to below the eye. All the under parts more 

 yellowish than in the adult, with the sides of the neck, breast, 

 and flanks spotted with blackish-brown — the spots being rounded 

 on the centre of the breast, transvei'se on the upper part of the 

 abdomen, and V-shaped on the side of neck and breast, most 

 distinctly so on the latter. The general effect of the plumage is 

 precisely the same as that of the DendrocolaptincE. 



Zonotrichia savanna. Particularly numerous on all the grassy 

 islands ; incubation nearly completed by the 2oth of June. 



