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detained by being hurt or crippled. The date of capture being 

 in midsummer July 9th excludes the idea of an early migra- 

 tion in this case. 



The following observations, which were printed for me in 

 Forest and Stream, Vol. XXXV, No. 1 , seem worthy of more 

 permanent record: "On July 9th, while traversing the woods 

 in Howard county, Md., about fifteen miles southwest of Balti- 

 more, my attention was attracted by a thrush, which at once I 

 saw was not the wood thrush (Turdus mustelinus). I shot the 

 bird and was astonished to find it a hermit thrush (T. pallasii 

 Cab.). The decided rufescent tail and tail coverts contrasted 

 with the olive brown color of the head and back were sufficient 

 to identify it. Knowing that there is no record of the occur- 

 rence of this bird in summer south of Massachusetts on the 

 Atlantic coast, I give some account of its characteristics. Com- 

 paring it with the descriptions in Ridgway's ' Manual/ Cones 

 and Baird, and with a mounted specimen in my collection, shot 

 in fall, I could find no difference except in the bill, which, 

 though not as bulky as that of the wood thrush, is longer and 

 broader than in the mounted specimen. The measurements from 

 the nostrils to the tip of the bill were as follows : Mounted 

 specimen of T. pallasii, .36 in. ; the above specimen of the same 

 species, .40 in. ; T. mustelinus, .48 in. That this bird was not a 

 young specimen of T. mustelinus is shown by the fact that a 

 young bird of that species which I caught with my hands, and 

 which had the tail only half developed, showed the cinnamon 

 color of the head, the spotted sides beneath and the olive brown 

 color of the tail, while in my specimen of T. pallasii the colors 

 of the various parts differ in no respect from the mounted 

 specimen in my collection. On dissection this bird proved to be 

 a female. The oesophagus contained the whole of a grasshopper, 

 apparently the larva of oadipoda. Before concluding, I desire to 

 speak of the time of arrival and departure of this species in the 

 immediate vicinity of Baltimore. About the first or second 

 week in October it makes its appearance, and is very common 

 through that month, its number diminishing gradually as winter 

 approaches. The last specimen I obtained in fall was Novem- 

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