22O Birds of Oregon and Washington 



March iQth, 1901, picking around the back- 

 door step of a house in suburban Portland. 



Some of these Thrushes linger into April, but 

 then they are off to their secluded nesting-homes, 

 most of them twelve hundred miles north. 



One or two nests of this species have been 

 discovered in Oregon, and a number of birds 

 have been seen at nesting-time in the Coast 

 Range Mountains in the same State. 



John Burroughs, in his report of his visit to 

 Alaska with the " Harriman Expedition," in 

 1899, speaks of their nests and of their sweet 

 song, with which they never favor this locality. 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Head and tail, black- 

 ish-brown ; back and wings, slaty ; orange-rufous stripe 

 back of eyes ; three of the same color upon each wing ; 

 throat, breast and sides, orange-rufous ; black crescent 

 on the breast. 



Winter resident. 



THE TOWNSEND'S SPARROW. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION : 



Upper parts : plain dark brown. 



Under parts: white, with numerous large trian- 

 gular brown spots on breast, and streaks of the 

 same on sides. 



Length, 7 inches and more. 



