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drons furnish, and it slyly emerges there- 

 from when it feels it safe to do so. 



Dr. Charles W. Townsend furnishes an 

 interesting winter record of a Catbird seen 

 in the Garden on December 22, 25, and 27 

 in 1904, it having been reported as present 

 previous to the first mentioned day. 



99. BROWN THRASHER 



Toxostoma rufum 



Brown Thrashers visit the Garden in 

 numbers somewhat fewer than the Cat- 

 birds, but the period of their migration, as 

 evidenced there, is more extended. It has 

 run over three weeks in five of the years, 

 and in 1905 it covered thirty- three days, 

 namely, from April 25 to May 27. The 

 Thrasher appears earlier than the Catbird, 

 often by a week or more, never having been 

 later in arriving than May 7. The time of 

 its appearance is in the first week of May, 

 when not in the last week of April. Yet 

 the last birds are quite as late in moving on 

 to their breeding-haunts as are the Cat- 

 birds, May 22 to 27 variously marking the 



