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still cling to the place which the memory of past joys has endeared to them. 

 This attachment to locality is well illustrated by a nest of this species found 

 here, which had been modeled in and above the one of the previous season. 

 Doubtless, the same pair, returning and finding the old home too dilapidated 

 for repairs, had thus obviated the necessity for a removal to a perhaps in 

 their eyes less favored spot. Eggs blue, slightly darker than those of the 

 Audubon's Thrush. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



10S 

 142 

 170 

 376 

 577 



$ ad. 

 $ ad. 

 $ ad. 

 9 ad. 

 S ad. 





May 17, 1S73 

 May 26, 1S73 

 May 28, 1873 

 June 19, 1S73 

 do 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 



4. IS 

 4.05 

 4.19 



3-94 

 4.07 



3.28 

 3.2S 

 3-9 

 3-" 

 3- '3 



o-55 

 0. 60 

 0.60 

 0.57 

 0.57 



I. 12 

 1.07 

 I. 16 

 1.07 



Fort Garland, Colo 



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OREOSCOPTES MONTANUS, Towns. 



Sage Thrasher. 



Orpheus montanus, Townsend, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, ii, 1837, 102. 



Mimus montamcs, Woodh., Sitgr. Exp. Zuni & Col. Riv., 1854, 73.— Heerm., P. R. R. 

 Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 44. 



Oreoscoptes montanus, Bd., Ives' Colorado, 1857-58, pt. iv, G. — Id., B. N. A., 1858, 

 347.— Kennerly, P. R. R. Rep., Whipp. Route, 1859, 25.— Bd., Mex. B. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, birds, 12. — Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1859, 

 107 (New Mexico).— Hayd., Trans. Phil. Soc, vol. 12, 18G2, 163.— Bd., Rev. 

 A. B., i, 1804, 43.— Cs., Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 1S66, G5 (Arizona 

 generally). — Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 4G4 (Wyoming). — Coop., 

 Pr. Cal. Acad., 1870, 75 (Colorado River).— Id,, B. Cal., i, 1870, 13.— Hold., 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, 1S72, 194 (Black Hills).— Allen, B. M. C. Z., 

 iii, 1872, 174 (west edge of the plains, Colo.; Ogden, Utah). — Cs., Key, 1872, 

 74. — Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1S72, G70. — Allen, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 19.— Bd., B. & R..N. A.B., i, 1S74, 32, pi. iii, 

 f. G. — Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Sp., Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 34. — Yarrow' & 

 Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Sp., 1872, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, G. — Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Sp., 1873, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 71, i)l.—Id,, An. Lye. Nat, Hist. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874.— Id., An. List B. U., 1872, Wheeler's Exp., 1874, 40.— Cs., U. S. 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., B. N. W., 1874, 7. 



Through nearly every portion of the country traversed by the survey 

 each season, this thrush has been found common. As an expression of the 

 peculiar localities favored by this bird, and its powers of song, the name of 



