The Food of Birds. 



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Table OF THE Food OF THE Brown Thrush. {Harporhytichus nifus,L.\ 



Concluded. 



TURDUS MUSTELINUS, Gill. WoOD ThRUSH. 



The remaining- members of this family are much less im- 

 portant than the ijrececling species, and their food is of 

 relatively little interest. I shall therefore treat them 

 much more briefly, especiall}'^ as I have comparatively few 

 specimens of them. The wood thrush is essentially a wood- 

 land bird, but occurs not infrequently in groves and gar- 

 dens and in other situations where trees and shrubbery are 

 accessible. It reaches central Illinois in April, and re- 

 tires usually in October, spending its winter in the South- 

 ern States. I have studied the food of but twenty-two speci- 

 mens of this species, ranging from April to September. 



