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tlio nest, not because it is essentially different from my own, 

 hut to confirm my own observation, and to lielp clear up 

 tlie confusion tliat exists in many districts concerning tbe 

 identity of the thrushes. It is as follows : — 



" The favorite haunts of f ho Wood Thrush are low, thick -sliaded 

 hollows, tlirough which a small brook or rill meanders, overhung 

 with cedar-bushes that arc mantled with wild vines. Near such a 

 scene, he generally builds his nest in a laurel or alder bush, f mt- 

 wardly, it is composed of withered beech-leaves of tlu; pioccding 

 year, laid at bottom in considerable quantities, no douht to prerent 

 damp and moisture from ascending through, being generally built 

 in low, wet situations : above these are layers of knotty stalks or 

 withered grass, mixed with mud, and smoothly plastered, above 

 which is laid a slight lining of fine black fibrous roots of plants." 



The eggs arc usually four in number; they arc of a uni- 

 form light-blue color, without spots, and with a very slight 

 tint of green ; their form is rather long and pointed. The 

 following are the dimensions of a nest complement of four 

 eggs, found in Milton, Mass. : 1.12 by .68 inch, 1.12 by .69 

 inch, 1.07 by 70 inch, 1 by .73 inch. But one brood is 

 usually reared in the season in New England. 



TURDUS P ALL ASU.—Cnbams. 

 The Hermit Thrush. 



Tnrdux pallasii, Cnhnnis. Wicpf^an's Arcliiv. (1847), I. 205. 



Tunhix solUnrius, Wilson. Am. Orn., V. (1812) 95 (not of LiniiuMis. The fij^iire 

 quoted pi. xliii. fig. 2, Ijclongs to T. Swninsonii). Aud. Syn. (18.39). lb., IJirda 

 Am., III. (1841) 29, pi. 140. 



rurdm minor, Bonaparte. Obs. Wilson (1825), No. 72. /b., Syn. (1828), 76. 

 Nutt. Man., L (1830) .34G. Aud. Orn. 15iog., L (18.31) 303; V. 445, pi. 58. 



Dksckiption. 



Fourth quill longest; third and fourth a little .shorter; second about equal to the 

 fixth (about a thirtieth of an inch shorter than the longest); tail slightly eniargi- 

 nate; above light olive-brown, with a scarcely p('rcej)tihle shade of reddiali, passing, 

 however, into decided rufous on the rump, upper tail coverts, and tail, and to a less 

 degree on the outer surface of the wings; beneath white, with a scarcely appreciable 

 shade of pale-IiufT across the fore part of the breast, and soiniUinics on tln' throat; 

 the sides of the tliroat and the fore part of the breast with rather sharply dedned 



