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FAMILY TURDID^E. THRUSHES; BLUE BIRDS, ETC. 

 Food principally insects, often fruit; usually sweet singers. 

 SUBFAMILY TURDINJE. THRUSHES. 

 GENUS TURD US LINN. 



Wood Thrush, natural size. 



326-755-(6), Turdus mnstelinns (Gmfl.). * WOOD THRUSH; SONG THRUSH. 



Not rare; throughout the state; April and May to October; numbers decreasing as 

 the thickets are cleared up; "occurs at Mackinac Inland" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw 

 Point "(Kneeland); breeds at least in Southern Peninsula; nests in May and June in 

 trees or shrubs, "in orchards" (Dr. A. K. Fisher); I have found the nests more com- 

 monly in damp, thick woods, and generally on low beech limbs; "nests at Traverse 

 City " (L. W. Watkins); eggs like those of the Robin, except a trifle smaller, two to five; 

 " this bird is shy during molt" (Dr. A. K. Fisher); and is usually seen in dense wood- 

 lands and thickets; the food habits of the Wood Thrush are much the same as those 

 of the Robin. 



327-756-(7). Turdus fuscescens [Steph. * WILSON'S THRUSH; VEERY; TAWNY 

 THRUSH. 



Common at least in southern part of the state; throughout the Lower Peninsula; 

 April to Sept.; usually in swampy woods; "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "occurs at 

 Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); Mr. White informs me that it breeds in Kent County; 

 breeds; "have seen them very abundant in Wayne County where they breed abund- 

 antly" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); nests on ground, occasionally in low shrubs or clumps of 

 bushes, in May or June; eggs blue, four, occasionally five. 



328-757-(12). Turdus alicia* Baird. * GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. 



One reported from Michigan in the museum of the Kent Scientific Institute by E. 

 L. Mosely; taken in Kent County by S. E. White; "one taken at Locke, May 10, 1883" 

 (Dr. H. A. Atkins); " this bird is recorded from Kalamazoo County by F. H. Chapin 

 and from Kent County by Mr. Chas. W. Gunn" (Dr. M. Gibbs). 



329-758a-(13). Turdus nstnlatns swain son ii (Cab.). * OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH; 



SWAINSON'S THRUSH; SWAMP ROBIN. 



Common; throughout the Southern Peninsula if not the entire state; May to Oct.; 

 E. B. Boies reports a large flock at Grand Rapids April 17 and 18, 1891; (Was not this the 

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