Birds of Bayou Sara, La., Or>sGrved 

 April l-2i3. by O. V/,B©okliam 



^'^*^''*''** Thrashers I found in every soit of place visited : 

 building their nests in the crepe myrtles and rose bushes about 

 the house, and again down in the darkest and most dismal places 

 in the swamp. 



Auk^ 4, Oct. 1887. p. 300- 



Birds cf -W's^eTB North Carolina. 



■WlUitom BtewBtBt. 



87. Harporhynchus rufus. BitovvN Thrasher.— Much les; 

 than the preceding species, but still frequently met with, especially on 

 brushy hillsides in\he lower valleys. I did not detect it anywhere above 

 3000 feet, but ^yas told that it is occasionally seen at Highlands (4000 leet). 



Attka S. Apfll. 1886. p. 175 



Summer Birds of BuHc;oinl.«!.Coui.ty . 

 N.Carolina. JohnS.OairnB. 



IIariy>rhvn<:hmrufiu:. Brown Thrasher. Sum- 

 mer visitor ; common. Arrives liere generally on 

 the third or fourth of April, nesting in that 

 month. Called Mocking-bird by the farmers. 

 A o-reat many are shot eacli spring by the 

 farmers who say that they pull up their com. 

 Catbirds and Towhees also share the same 

 fate. 



O &0. XIV. Feb. 1839 p. 22 



Obe. on Su«»m»r Bir4» of Mountain 

 t'oTB. PLciiea* 0«, S.O. L.M.Loomis. 



67. Harporhynchus rufus. Hiu) Ti [n V'iHicK. -TmiAsHi 

 abundant, and mainly conSned to the open valleys. A male 

 while singing, on the edge of a clearing at about 2000 feet, whu 

 highest akitude at which the species was discovered. 



The same friend who cared tor the Olive 

 Back, had a Brown Thrasher roost at night for 

 three weeks late ia September, and the begin- 

 ning of October, in a honeysuckle on the end of 

 his real- stoop, 36th Street, near Fifth avenue. 

 The back yard has a flower bed all around, and 

 a good smooth cut grass plot in the centre, 

 which was very full of worms. The bird 

 stayed and took a good breakfast of worms 

 every morning early, then disappeared till 

 evening; every day most likely he was off to 

 the Central Park, 'i'he yards between the rows 

 ■-'■''-"•tses here are very small, which adds to the 

 arity of the bird's choice, but the one he 



chose was in a much finer condition than any 

 neighboring ones. I never heard of a Brown 

 Thrasher in such a densely populated locality. 



Not 

 as shot, 

 1 was the 



O.&O. Xrir.Apr. 1888 p.5V'P- 



Auk, TII. April. 18W0. p. 130. 



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