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FAMILY TURDID/E.—THRUSHES, 
SOLITAIRS, STONECHATS, 
BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 
SUBFAMLIY TURDINAE.—THRUSHES. 
GENUS HYLOCICHLA. 
[755]. Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin). Wood Thrush. 
Raner.—Eastern North America. Breeds in Tran- 
sition and Austral zones from southern South Dakota, 
central Minnesota, central Wisconsin, southern Ontario, 
and southern New Hampshire south to eastern Texas, 
Louisiana, and northern Florida; winters from Puebla, 
southern Mexico, to Nicaragua and Costa Rica; casual 
in migration in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica; acci- 
dental in Colorado, Maine and Bermuda. 
A fairly common breeding bird over the whole area, 
the nest as usual placed in the upright fork of, or on a 
bent-over, slender. sapling growing along the border of 
swampy ground, or along a stream. A full setting of eggs, 
numbering from four to five, may be found from May 
5th to 15th, while a second setting, which sometimes 
oceurs, may be looked for about June 15th. The nest 
is composed of dry leaves, grasses and stems, mud, paper, 
and bits of string, and lined with fine rootlets. Eggs, 
greenish-blue, unmarked. Size, 1.05x.70. These birds 
arrive about April 15th, and soon make their presence 
known by that beautiful liquid song so easy to identify 
their presence by. As a breeding bird they are becoming 
more numerous; for many years they were unknown as 
