95 

 County (Cassinia 1901), while in 1896 Mr. W. E. Hannum 

 observed a pair that raised two broods at Conordville, 

 Delaware County. Mr. S. S. Dickey tells me that a nest was 

 found about May 30, 1912, containing five eggs near Waynes- 

 burg, Greene County. 



704. Dumetella carol inensis ( Linn . ) . Catbird. 



Prom early May till Mid-October the Catbird is an 

 abundant bird in briery thickets and tangled underbrush thru- 

 out the state. Tho apparently a very common breeder in every 

 county, the Catbird seems to occur in the greatest numbers 

 in the river valleys of the Carolinian and Alleghanian faunas, 

 being especially abundant in the Delaware and Susquehanna 

 Valleys. 



705. Toxostoma rufura (Linn i ) . Brown Thrasher. 



The Brown Thrasher is an abundant summer resident 

 over a large portion of the state, breeding in every county 

 but growing less common in the Alleghanian fauna and being 

 scarce in most of the sections where the Canadian element 

 of the fauna is well pronounced. In many of the mountainous 

 counties especially Warren and Sullivan, the Thrasher seems 

 to be increasing in numbers altho still far from coai'O". 



