NESTS AND EGGS 



TURDID.E TANAGRID^. 



[Classified according to the Nomenclature of North American Birds by 

 Robert Ridgway.f] 



FA MILY Turdidae —Thrushes. 



I HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA. 



WOOD THRUSH. 



tHE favorite haunts of this beautiful bird are dark "thickets 

 ^^ and low marshy places shaded by trees of thick foliage. 

 The nest is usually built on a horizontal branch of a small 

 forest-tree, six to eight feet from the ground. On one occasion I 

 found the nest in the crotch of a large oak, at the height of fifteen 



t Nomenclature of North American Birds chiefly contained in the United States National Museum. 

 By Robert Rldgway. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 21. Publiahtd under the direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881. 8 vo, pp. 1— W, 



