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fibrous roots within; eggs four to six, glossy greenish- 

 blue. Two broods are raised in a season. 



The Genus Oreoscoptes comprises the Mountain Mock- 

 ing-Bird, O. montanus, Baird, of Western North Amer- 

 ica, which is eight inches long, and the wing nearly five 

 inches, and with the bill longer and more slender than in 

 Mimus. 



The Genus Harporhynchus has the bill as long as or 

 longer than the head, no notch, the wings short, and tail 

 long. 



The California Thrush, H. redivivus, Cab., of Califor- 

 nia, is eleven and a half inches long, the wing over four 

 inches, the bill much decurved and longer than the head. 

 The color above brownish olive, beneath pale cinnamon, 

 deepening into rufous on the under tail-coverts. 



Five additional species of this genus are found in Mex- 

 ico and California. 



The Brown Thrush, H. rufus, Cab., of North America 

 east of the Missouri, is over eleven inches long, the wing 

 over four inches ; the color above light cinnamon-red, be- 

 neath pale rufous-white, with longitudinal streaks of dark 

 brown. In the pleasant spring mornings, this bird utters 

 the sweetest melodies from the topmost twigs of some 

 isolated tree. Later in the day, and at all times late in 

 the season, it prefers low thick bushes. Its flight is low 

 and -heavy, and continued only a few rods at. a time. 

 The nest is made in a clump of low bushes a few feet 

 from the ground ; the eggs four to six, dull buff thickly 

 sprinkled with dots of brown. 



The Genus Campy lorhynchus comprises C. brunneica- 

 pillus, Gray, Southwestern North America, which is eight 

 inches long, the wing nearly three and a half inches, and 

 is the largest Wren in the United States. 



The Genus Catherpes comprises the White-throated 

 Wren, C. mexicanus, Baird, of the Rio Grande region, 



