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still cliug 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 

 here, 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. 



OREOSOOPTES MONTANUS, Towns. 



Sage Thrasher, 



Orpheus montanus, Townsend, Jour. Acad. Nat. Soi. Phila., vii, ii, 1837, 192. 



Mimus montanus, WooDH., Sitgr. Exp. Zuui & Col. Riv., 1854, 73.— Heerm., P. R. R. 

 Rep., X, pt. iv, 1859, 44. 



Oreoscoptes montamis, Bd., Ives' Colorado, 1857-58, pt. iv, 6. — Id., B. N. A., 185S, 

 347.— Kennkrly, P. R. R. Rep.,Wliipp. Route, 1859, 25.— Bd., Mex. B. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, birds, 12.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1859, 

 107 (New Mexico).— Hayd., Trans. Phil. Soc, vol. 12, 18C2, 163.— Bd., Rev. 

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

 generally).— Stev., U. S. Ceol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 464 (Wyoming).— Coop., 

 Pr. Cal. Acad., 1870, 75 (Colorado River).— M, B. Cal., i, 1870, 13.— Hold., 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hi.st, 1872, 194 (Black Hills).— Allen, B. M. C. Z., 

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

 74.— Mekriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 670.— Allen, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 19.— Bd., B. & R., N. A. B., i, 1874, 32, pi. iii, 

 f. 6.— Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Sp., Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 34.— Yarrow & 

 Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Sp., 1872, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 6.— Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Sp., 1873, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 71, 97.— ZfZ., An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874.— /(?., An. List B. U., 1872, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 46.— 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 has been found common. As an expression of the 

 peculiar locaUties favored by tliis bird, and its powers of song, the name of 



