60 BIEDS OF KANSAS. 



Subfamily P0LI0PTILIN>^. Gnatcatchebs. 

 Genus POLIOPTILA Sclateb. 



B. 282. R. 27. C. 36. G. 13. U. 761. 

 325. Polioptila cserulea (Linn.). Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Summer resident; 

 rare; in migration common. Arrive in April. Begin laying the first of May. 

 Nest in the branches of tree-tops, fifteen to fifty feet from the ground; usu- 

 ally saddled between and woven to upright twigs, a beautiful nest composed 

 of stem-like stemlets, bits of leaves and feathers woven together with spider- 

 webs, lined with a soft downy substance from plants, and thickly dotted on the 

 outside with lichens. Eggs, four or five; .56x.44; pale greenish white, spotted 

 and blotched with reddish brown, lilac, and slate, running together around 

 large end; in form rounded oval. 



Family TURDID-ffi. Thrushes, Solitaires, Stonechats, 

 Bluebirds, etc. 



Subfamily M YADESTINv^. Solitaibes. 

 Genus MYADESTES Swainson. 



B. 235. R. 25. C. 169. G. 12. U. 754. 



326. Myadestes townsendii (Aud.). Townsend's Solitaire. An occasional 

 fall and winter visitant in Western Kansas. 



Subfamily TURDIN/^. Thbushes. 



Genus TURDUS Linn^us. 

 Subgenus HYLOCICHLA Baird. 



B. 148. R. 1. C. 6. G. 1. U. 755. 



327. Turdus mustelinus Gmel. Wood Thrush. Summer resident; abundant 

 in eastern Kansas. Arrive the last of April to first of May. Begin laying 

 about the middle of May. Nest usually saddled onto a horizontal limb of a 

 tree, six to ten feet from the ground, composed outside of loose stems of 

 weeds and leaves, attached to a closely compact body of pulverized leaves, 

 fibers and lint-like substances from plants, plastered together with saliva and 

 tracings of mud, and lined with small fibrous roots. Eggs, three to five; 

 l.OOx.75; deep blue with a greenish tinge; in form oval. 



B. 151. R. 2. C. 7. G. 2. U. 756. 



328. Turdus fuscescens Steph. Wilson's Thrush. Migratory; rare. Arrive 

 the last of April to first of May. Probably breed in the State. 



B. 54. R. 3. C. 12. G. 3. U. 557. 



329. Turdus alicise Baied. Gray-cheeked Thrush. Migratory; rare. Arrive the 

 last of April to the first of May. 



