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Family TURDID.E. Thrushes; Blue Birds, etc. 

 Food principally insects, often fruit; usually sweet singers. 

 Subfamily TURDIN^. Thrushes. 

 Genus T URDUS Linn. 



Wood Thrnsh, natural size. 



326-755-(6). Turdus mnstelinus (Qmel.). *Wood Thrush; Song Thrush. 



Not rare; throughout the state; April and May to October; numbers decreasing as 

 the thickets are cleared up; "occurs at Mackinac Inland" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw 

 Point " (Kneeland); breeds at least in Southern Peninsula; nests in May and June in 

 trees or shrubs, "in orchards" (Dr. A. K. Fisher);. I have found the nests more com- 

 monly in damp, thick woods, and generally on low beech limbs; " nests at Traverse 

 City " (L. W. Watkins); eggs like those of the Robin, except a trifle smaller, two to five; 

 "this bird is shy during molt" (Dr. A. K. Fisher); and is usually seen in dense wood- 

 lands and thickets; the food habits of the Wood Thrush are much the same as those 

 of the Robin. 



327-756-(7). Tardus fuscesceus Steph. * Wilson's Thrush; Veery; Tawny 

 Thrush. 

 Common at least in southern part of the state; throughout the Lower Peninsula; 

 April to Sept.; usually in swampy woods; "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "occurs at 

 Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); Mr. White informs me that it breeds in Kent County; 

 breeds; "have seen them very abundant in Wayne County where they breed abund- 

 antly" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); nests on ground, occasionally in low shrubs or clumps of 

 bushes, in May or June; eggs blue, four, occasionally five. 



328-757-(12). Tnrdus alicia^ Scnrd. * Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



One reported from Michigan in the museum of the Kent Scientific Institute by E. 

 L. Mosely; taken in Kent County by S. E. White; "one taken at Locke, May 10. 1883" 

 (Dr. H. A. Atkins); " this bird is recorded from Kalamazoo County by F. H. Chapin 

 and from Kent County by Mr. Chas. W. Gunn " (Dr. M. Gibbs). 



329-758a-(13). Tardus ustulatus swaiusouii (Cab.). *Olive-backed Thrush; 

 Swainson's Thrush; Swamp Robin. 

 Common; throughout the Southern Peninsula if not the entire state; May to Oct.; 

 E. B. Boies reports a large flock at Grand Rapids April 17 and 18, 1891; (Was not this the 



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