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north toward the Great Lakes, .Southern New York and Southern New 

 England, straggling north to Massachusetts and Maine. 



Nest, a model of bird architecture, compact-walled and contracted at the 

 trim, elegantly stuccoed with lichens fixed to slender twigs at a' height varying 

 from ten to fifty or sixty feet from the ground. 



Eggs, four or five, greenish-white, speckled with reddish, umber-brown and 

 lilac. 



The Gnatcatcher is, I believe, a regular summer resident in South- 

 ern Ontario, though apparently locally distributed and not very 

 abundant. There is one particular patch of bush where I usually see 

 this species every spring, but elsewhere I have not observed it. Mr. 

 Dickson finds it regularly at Waterdown, and Mr. Saunders reports 

 it as not very rare near London. It keeps mostly to the tops of tall 

 trees, and might readily be overlooked by anyone not acquainted 

 with its habits. 



In the breeding season it is said to have a pleasing song, and it 

 shows considerable spirit »n driving off intruders from the neighbor- 

 hood of its nest. 



In Ontario this species is apparently limited to the south-west 

 border, north of which I have not heard of its having been observed. 

 Mr. White has not met with it at Ottawa, neither is it mentioned in 

 -any of the local lists north of those named. 



Family TURDID.<E. Tiibushes, Solitaires, Stonechats, 

 Bluebirds, etc. 



Subfamily TURDIN^. Thrushes. 



Genus TURDUS Linn^us. 



Subgenus HYLOCICHLA Baird. 



TURDUS MUSTELINUS (Gmel.) 



310. Wood Thrush. (755) 



Above, bright tawny, shading into olive on rump and tail ; beneath, white, 

 everywhere except throat and belly, with large distinct spots of dusky; bill,, 

 dusky above, yellowish below; legs, flesh-colored. Length, TJ inches; wing, 

 4; tail, 3. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to the Plains, north to Southern Michigan, 

 Ontario and Massachusetts, south, in winter, to Guatemala and Cuba. 



