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than of those on the uplands, although it is found in almost all suitable localities. It 

 is particularly numerous in the woods along portions of Killbuck Creek. 



The breeding season continues from about the end of the first week in May until 

 the middle of July, but is at its height during the last two weeks of May and the first 

 week in June. The favorite nesting /places are wooded ravines and the timbered 

 banks bordering the bottom-lands. Nearly all the nests found have been in saplings 

 or bushes, usually from three to five, never higher than ten, feet from the ground. 



The measurements of two nests are as follows : 



This species is commonly imposed upon by the Cowbird, sometimes to the ex- 

 tent of two or even three eggs. A nest discovered June 28, 1891, contained three 

 eggs of the Wood Thrush and three of the Cowbird. The former, with two of the 

 latter, were perfectly fresh, while the third Cowbird's egg, besides being badly 

 cracked and addled, was buried nearly out of sight among the materials composing 

 the bottom of the nest. These circumstances seem clearly to indicate that this Cow- 

 bird's egg had been deposited several days in advance of the other eggs, and while 

 the nest was in process of construction. 



The Wood Thrush is in full song from the time of its arrival until the middle of 

 June ; subsequently continuing, but with less regularity, up to about the middle of 

 July. 



178. Turdus fuscescens STEPH. 

 Wilson's Thrush. 



This species is apparently the least numerous of all the transient Thrushes. It 

 has been observed only in 1892, when on May i, 15, and 22, it was seen near Wooster, 

 in woodland in the valley of the Killbuck. In the collection of Mr. E. N. Freeman, 

 of Orrville, is a single specimen, which was taken in spring near that place. 



179. Turdus aliciae BAIRD. 

 Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



A tolerably common spring and fall transient, yet owing to the character of the 

 localities frequented, and to its shy, retiring habits, is somewhat liable to be over- 

 looked. It has been noted from May 8 to May 14, and from September 18 to October 

 2 ; principally in thickets along streams and the borders of woods, and in the tim- 

 bered ravines adjoining the lowlands. 



The stomach of a specimen shot on September 18, 1892, was filled with berries 

 of t'.ie poke-weed {Phytolacca decandra), on which the bird was feeding when killed. 



