Brown Thrasher Wintering in Mass.— There are one or two records 

 of the Brown Thrasher {Toxostoma rufum) having been seen in Massa- 

 chusetts late in the winter or during one month of the winter. On Janu- 

 ary 3 I saw an individual, which I took to be a male, sitting in some low 

 bushes beside the Boston and Albany R. R. tracks on the Brookline side 

 of the Parkway near the Longwood station. He seemed to be in good 

 health and while secretive was fairly tame and up to the present writing 

 (February 28) he has remained within a hundred yards of the place where 

 I fu-st found him. A pair of Thrashers nested here last summer and, I 

 suppose, it is more than likely this bird was one of the pair. There has 

 been cracked corn scattered near the thicket in which he makes his home 

 and there is a large chunk of suet in a tree-near by, but I have not seen him 

 touch either, and have watched him scratching among the dry leaves and 

 feeding on the ground. Several friends have seen and watched the Thrasher 

 with me. The following are the dates on which I have seen him. : January 

 3, 14, 17, 24, 31, February 7, 12, 21, 28.— Ch.\bles B. Floyd, Brookline, 

 Mass. 



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