BiHDS OF Indiana. 



1147 



SoBrAMiM TURDINjE. Thrushes. 



176. Genus TURDUS Linx^us. 

 a'. Color brown above. 

 6'. Tail brighter than back. T. aoualaschkse pallasii (Cab.). 319 



b'. Tail not brighter than back, 

 c^ Sides spotted; head, in adult, brighter than back. 



T. mustelinus Gmel^. 314 

 c'. Sides not spotted; color uniform above. 



d\. Above light tawny brown ; throat spots not darker than back. 



T. fuscescens Steph. 315 

 d^. Above ru^et olive ; throat spots darker than back. 



T. fuscescens salicicola Bidgw. 316 

 a'. Color above olive. 



e'. Ring around the eye and sides of head and breast buffy. 



I. ustulatus swainsonii (Cab.). 318 



e'. No bufiy ring around eye; sides of head grayish; breast lighter; 



throat white. T. aliciae Baird. 317 



Subgenus Hvlociobla Baird. 



*314. (755) Turdus mustelinus Gmel. 



Wood Thrush. 



Head of Wood Thrush. Natural size. 



Adult. — Above, cinnamon-brown, brighter and more rufous on the 

 crown, more olive on the tail; beneath,, including the sides, white, the 

 breast and sides marlced with roundish spots of black. Immature. — 

 With the upper parts spotted and streaked with yellowish fulvous. 



Length, 7.50-8.25; wing, 4.10-4.50; tail, 3.00-3.30 (Ridgway). 



Eange. — jSTorth America, from Honduras and Bermudas over the 

 eastern United States to Maine, Quebec and Minnesota; west to Kan- 

 sas and Forth Dakota. Breeds from Georgia and southern Missouri 

 north. Winters from Texas and Florida south. 



Nest, on horizontal branch or fork of low tree or sapling, 6 to 15 

 feet up; of mud, leaves, weeds and twigs, lined with fine rootlets. 

 JEggs, 2-5; greenish-blue; 1.00 by .75. 



