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or in a pile of old brush and fagots: it is constructed of 
fine twigs, leaves, and grasses, and is lined with fine leaves 
of grasses, and sometimes a few hair-like roots. 
The eggs are usually four in number. Their ground color 
varies from grayish to reddish-white: this is covered, over 
the entire surface, with fine dots and points of reddish- 
brown: in some specimens these dots run into each other, 
and from small blotches. The average dimensions of a 
great number of specimens in my collection is about .94 by 
.76 inch. When placed in a tray beside an equal number 
of the eggs of the Brown Thrush, the eggs of this species 
appear much paler, and with a more roseate tint; otherwise, 
except with regard to size, the two species resemble each 
other much. 
In New England, but one brood is usually reared in the 
season. I have found nests with young in June and 
August, but generally the first brood leaves the nest too late 
for another to be brought out before the early frosts. 
. About the middle of October, the old birds and their 
young, in small detached flocks, leave New England on 
their southern migration. 
