THRUSHES, 



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Thrush and Catbird are good types of their respective 

 groups, though several Thrushes nest upon the ground, or 

 have spotted eggs. 



The subfamilies of the Thrushes are : — 



TUBBING, Genus Turdus, I. 

 (Highly musical.) Subgenus Hylodchla (^A-E. ^ Fig. 1). 

 (Moderately musical.) Subgenus Mervla (F). 



MiMiNiE, Genera II and III. 



I. TXTRDUS. (HTIiOCICHLA.) 



A. MUSTELiNTJS. Wood Thrush. " Song Thrush." A 

 common summer resident in Massachusetts.* 



a. About eight inches long. Above, soft but bright red- 

 dish brown (or " tawny "), gradually becoming soft " olive- 

 dushy " on the rump, tail, and end of the wings. Beneath, 

 white, with a very slight buff tinge upon the breast ; spotted 

 on the breast and sides with dark brown (or " dusky"). 



b. The nest sometimes closely resembles that of the 

 Eobin, but it is often composed outwardly of moss and even 

 twigs, though subject to considerable variation in composition 



^ The Wood Thrushes. The Robins Massachusetts, and rare or accidental 



(F) are well known ; (G) has been sep- 

 arated from them, and placed in sub- 

 genus Hesperocichla. 



* A summer resident, very common 

 and generally distributed in Connecti- 

 cut, less numerous and more local in 



at most localities north of the latter 

 State. Near the shores of Lake Cham- 

 plain in western Vermont, howcTcr, it 

 is said to breed regularly in some 

 numbers. — W. B. 



