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I'S AND EGGS OF 



758. RUSSET-BACKED THRUSH AND NKST (E. S. Cheney del.) 



the deepest thickets, and when disturbed utters an alarm note like that of the Brown 

 Thrasher, clinch-, clinch-. It is also a fine songster, and may be heard at dusk and 

 early morning. The nest is built in thickets or bushes, a few feet above the ground. 

 It is composed of twigs, grasses, roots and leaves, and in some cases mosses are used. 

 A set of four eggs taken near San Jose, California, May 18, 1885, gives the following 

 dimensions: .92x.65, .95x.66, .97x.68. They are greenish-blue spotted with yellowish- 

 brown, chiefly about the larger end. The average size of ten specimens is .94x.65. 



758. OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. TurtliiK nxttildtii* xiniinminn (Cab.) Geog. 

 Dist. Eastern North America, west to and including Rocky Mountains, and as far 

 as East Humboldt ranges and the Upper Columbia. Breeds chiefly north of the 

 t'nitfd States, wintering from the Gulf States and Mississippi Valley southward to 

 Northern South America. 



The Olive-backed Thrush breeds chiefly north of the United States. It is given 

 as a common breedfng bird in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah. Mr. Kennicot found it 

 nesting In the Arctic regions, frequently placing the nest not more than two feet from 

 the ground. In his Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick,* Mr. M. Chamberlain 

 it as a summer resident, breeding In abundance. Breeds abundantly in Nova 

 Scotia. In some parts of Maine and New Hampshire it is the commonest Thrush, 

 except the Robin, during the breeding season. f Mr. Frank H. Lattin has for two 



* I'.inls f.f NVw P.nmswlrk. Hulletin of the Natural History Society of New Hrns- 

 Wlck. No. 1. Published by the SoHrty. St. John. N. B., 1882. Pp. 29-68. 

 tNew England Bird Llfr. p;irt I. n. 58. 



