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brown, russet, and a very dark brown." — Baird, Brewer and 

 Ridgway's N. a. Birds, vol. i, p. 51. 



12. GALEOSCOPTES CAROLINENSIS. 



CAT BIHD. 



This well-known bird builds its nest on low bushes or clusters of 

 vines and generally in retired places. It is scarcely ever placed 

 more than ten feet from the ground. The materials are dry leaves, 

 twigs and fine dry gra?s. It is lined with fine, black fibrous roots 

 and dry grasses. Their nests average 4 inches in height by 5 in 

 diameter. The width and depth are about 3^ inches. 



The eggs, four sometimes five in number, are of a bluish-green 

 and measure .97 in length by .69 of an inch in breadth. 



13. HARPORHYNCHUS RUFUS. 



BROWN THRASHER. 



The nest of this thrush is a bulky structure made of twigs, sticks, 

 strips of bark and withered leaves, strongly put together. It con- 

 tains an inner nest composed of dry leaves, strips of bark and black 

 fibrous roots, and is lined with horse-hair and a few feathers. It is 

 usually built in low bushes or clusters of briers, occasionally in a 

 heap of brush-wood. 



The eggs are from four to six in number, with the ground color 

 of a greenish-white, marked with innumerable reddish-brown dots, 

 usually more numerous at or around the larger end. Their average 

 measurements are, 1.05 inches by .81 of an inch. 



This thrush is a common species from the Rocky Mountains to 

 the Atlantic, and from the Red River country, in British America, 

 to the Rio Grande. 



13^. HARPORHYNCHUS RUFUS LONGIROSTRIS. 



MEXICAN BROWN THRASHER. 

 ''The eggs of this species are hardly distinguishable from the 

 common Brown Thrasher (H. rufzis) of the Atlantic State?. The 

 color of their ground is a greenish-white, which is thickly, and usu- 

 ally completely, covered with fine markings of a yellowish-brown. 

 They have an average length of i- 13 inches, by .79 in breadth. So 

 far as I have had an opportunity of observing, they do not vary from 

 these measurements more than two per cent in length or one per cent 



