138 THE OOLOGIST A7 YA) 1 O\— 
No. 61—Location of Hermit Thrush Nest, Shown in No. 50. 
—Photo by Verdi Burtch. 
Nesting of the Hermit Thrush. 
In nearly all of the larger gullies 
that cut the hills about Branchport 
and the shores of Lake Keuka, N. Y.., 
the Hermit Thrush can be found mak- 
ing its summer home. The nest will 
be found in a little hole in the bank 
or on a ledge of rock near the rush- 
ing and tumbling water. It is a bulky 
affair composed of dead weeds, grass 
and dead leaves with which is mixed 
a few dead hemlock twigs and lots of 
green moss, the whole blending with 
the moss and dead leaves on the bank 
in such a manner that it is hardly dis- 
tinguishable, but to the practiced ob- 
server there is a certain characteris- 
tic about it that gives it away every 
time. Sometimes a nest is placed up 
from the ground a little, a nest found 
July 2, 1905, was in a tangle of black- 
berry bushes, two feet from the 
ground and on a rather level place 
near the mouth of a gully. It was 
composed of dead weeds and grass 
with which was mixed a few hemlock 
twigs and green moss and was neat- 
ly lined with dead pine leaves. It was 
bulky and deep, and nearly as large 
as a Grackle’s nest. It contained three 
eggs, greenish blue in color slightly 
lighter than those of the Wood Thrush 
or more like those of the Robin. Lat- 
er, July 9, I found the nest tipped over 
and the eggs gone, and the birds were 
not seen at all. 
Another nest found June 27, 1909 in 
the Chidsey gully could be easily seen 
from a short distance. It was placed 
in a lot of dead leaves that had lodged 
