18 iNORTII AMERICAN IJIHDS. 



is comparfitively sluillow, Lfiii^ rnri'ly 2 inches in depth. The external 

 portions are constructed almost entirely of Hifi>niim mosses, matted to- 

 gether and sparingly interwoven with dry leaves and fine fibrous roots, 

 and are lined with finer materials of the same kind. Tliese nests most 

 nearly resemble in their material and in their i)0.sition those of »S\vaiuson's 

 Thrush. 



Mr. Hepburn found these birds very abundant about Victoria. It does 

 not usually breed there Ixjfore the last of May, though in one exceptional 

 instance he found a nest with young birds on the 24th of that montli. 



The eggs vary in size and shaiH3, ranging from .77 to .9-4 in length, and 

 from .()."> to .09 in breadth. They also vary in their ground color and in the 

 tints of the spots and markings. The ground color is light green or light 

 blue, and the markings are variously yellowish-browu and lilac, or dark 

 brown and slate. 



Mr. Gmyson found this thrush very abundant in the month of January, 

 in tlie thickest of the woods, in the islands of tlie Three Marias, on the 

 Pacific coast of Mexico. They were very timid and shy, more so than any 

 bird that he saw on those islands. It fre<piently uttered a low plaintive 

 whistle, and seemed solitary in its habits. 



Turdus pallasi, Cabams. 



BV70U8-TAILSO THBITSH; HEBMIT THBU8H. 



TurdiiH pallosii, Cabaxis, AViegmann's Arcliiv, 1847 (i>, 205. — Baird, Binls N. Am. 



1858, 212. — Ib. \li\. Am. B. 1864, 14. — Sclateh, P. Z. 8. 18.09, 325 ??. — Ib. Catal. 



1861, 2, No. 7. — KiiHiWAY. — Mavxaud. — Samikls, 148. Turdus solitarius, 



Wilson, Amer. Oin. V, 1812, 05 (not ol LiNN.Er.s). — Sclateu, P. Z. S. 1857, 212. 



Turdus minor. Box. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72. Turdus yuHatus, C.VBAXi.s, T.schuili, 



Fauna Peruana, 1844, 187 (not Mumcaim tjuWita of Pallas). 

 Additional figures : Aid. Birds Am. Ill, \\. e.xlvi. — Ib. Orn. Biog. I, pi. Iviii. 



Sp. Char. Tail slipfhtly emaririnato. Above light olive-browii, with a scarcely per- 

 c(>j>til»le shade of reddish, passing, however, into decided rufous on the rump, upper tail- 

 j'overts, and tail, and to a less degree on the outer surface of the wings. Beneath whit*', 

 with a scarcely appreciable shade of pale buff across the fore part of the breast, and 

 sometimes on the throat ; the sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with 

 rather sharply defined subtriangular spots of dark olive-biown ; the sides of the breast 

 with paler and less distinct spots of tlie same. Sides of the body under the wings of a 

 paler shade than the back. A whitish ring round the eye ; ear-coverts very obscurely 

 streaked with paler. Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 3.84; tail, 3.25; tarsus, I.IG; No. 2,092. 



Hab. Eiistern Xorth America. Mexico ? Not lOund in Cuba, fide GuxDL.\cn. 



In spring the olive above is very iimch tliat of eastern specimens of 

 svainsoni ; in winter specimens it is much browner, and almost as much 

 so as m fifscesvam. Yoinig ]»irds have the feathers of the head, back, and 

 wing coverts streaked centiidly with drop-sha})ed spots of rusty yellowish 



Habits. Until quite recently the " Ground Swamp iJobin," or Hermit 



