206 BIEDS — HERMIT THEUSH. 



ties they are very abundant. Towards the close of summer afternoons 

 they" seem to delight in mounting the higher branches of trees and join 

 in an extemporaneous concert. Their song is ghort, their notes exceed- 

 ingly liquid and sweet. 



I am indebted to Dr. Howard E. Jones, of Circleville, for an albino of 

 this species, which he killed in August, 1879. The entire upper parts 

 are white, washed with pearl gray. The lower parts were pure white, 

 the spots of the breast obsolete, the breast washed with delicate cream 

 color. 



The nest is built in saplings and low tree?, seldom more than twenty 

 feet from the ground. It is constructed of leaves, sticks, and moss, min- 

 gled and cemented with mud, with which it is also lined. The eggs are 

 usually four in number, of a deep greenish blue color, and measure 1 by 

 .75 inch. 



Misses Genevieve E. Jones and Eliza J. Shultze give an exquisite 

 figure of the nest and eggs of this bird in the first number of their ad- 

 mirable " Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Ohio Birds." 



TtTRDUS PALLASI. Cab. 

 Hermit Thrush, 



Turdvs mmor, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163. 



Turdus solitariua, Ebad, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1863, 399 ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Soi. Philad., vi, 

 395, 1853. 



Turdua pallasi, Baird, P. E. E. Eep., ix, 1858, 213 — Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Eep. for 

 1860, 363; Eeprint, 1861, 5; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agri. Rep. for 1874, 562; Ee- 

 print, 1875, 2.— Lakgdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 3: Jour. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 

 1878, 111 ; EepriDt, 2 ; Eeyieed List, Jour. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., 1, 1879, 169 ; Eeprint, 3. 



Turdus soUtarius, Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 95, 



Turdus minor, Bonapartb, Jour. Phila. Acad., iv, 1824, 33. 



Turdua pallasii, Gabanis, Arch. f. Naturg., 1847, 595. 



Above olive, shading into rufous on rump and tail. Below ■white, olive shaded on 

 sides. Sides of head, eyelids, neck and breast strongly tinged with buff. Throat and 

 breast marked with large dueky-olive spots. Length about 7i; wing 3i; tail 3. 



Habitat, Eastern North America. 



Spring and fall migrant in Central Ohio, possibly summer resident 

 in some portions of Northern Ohio. Mr. Langdon states on the authority 

 of Mr. Dury that the nest and eggs have been taken in the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati. The Hermit Thrush is a common migrant in April and 

 October. It arrives before the other small thrushes, and frequents sparce 

 woodland, brush-heaps, and the wooded banks of streams. In its summer 

 home it is said to have a sweet song, but with us its only note is a short 



