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Mountains, these thrushes are rare and local in summer, but 

 occur here and there in cool swamps or along mountain brooks, 

 as I have noted rarely at Bridgewater in 1900. Mr. E. A. 

 Preble writes me of a nest found on June 20, a number of years 

 ago, on the Ossipee Hills at Ossipee. Mr. C. F. Goodhue 

 ('yya, p. 33) has also recorded it as having bred once near 

 Webster. Farther south, Mr. G. H. Thayer writes me that it 

 breeds regularly in small numbers among the thick spruces 

 near the summit of Mt. Moriadnock above 2,500 feet, and spo- 

 radically in the lower country to the northward ; he has also 

 found it in some numbers at Nubanusit Lake, Hillsboro' 

 County. 

 Dates : May 16 to October. 



252. Hylocichla guttata pallasii (Cab.). HERMIT 

 THRUSH. 



A rather common summer resident of the sub-Canadian woods 

 to which it is almost entirely confined during the breeding 

 season. A few summer in the extreme southwestern portions of 

 the state, and in the lower Connecticut Valley it is not uncom- 

 mon on the ridges and among the dry woods of mixed growth. 

 In central New Hampshire in the Winnepesaukee region it is 

 certainly the commonest thrush, frequenting the dry hillside 

 woods. Among the White Mountains, Hermit Thrushes are 

 fairly common at the lower levels, inhabiting the white pine for- 

 ests, or the more open scattered growth of red and pitch pine in 

 the valleys, where a sandy soil supports an undergrowth of bear 

 oak and braken. In the beech woods about the foot of the 

 mountains up to 2,000 feet, these thrushes are less common or 

 absent, but on the lower peaks, as on Bartlett and Kearsarge, 

 they appear again in small numbers in the dry clumps of dense 

 spruces which grow here and there among the barren ledges up 

 to 3,000 feet or so. Above this level on the larger mountains, 

 the bird is practically absent. Dr. A. P. Chadbourne ('87) has, 

 however, recorded a single specimen seen in summer as high as 

 3,300 feet on Mt. Washington. Hermit Thrushes, even in late 

 summer, are active until the twilight becomes almost too deep 

 to permit more than a dim view as a bird is startled here and 



