Birds of Bayou Sara, La., Observed 

 April l-2i3. by O. Vv, Beckham 



/J^UHtm- Thrashers I found in every sort 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. 



Auki4, Oct. 188 7. p. 



Birie cf W»«+eTm North Carolina. 



•WiUium Bre-WBtet. 



87. Harporhynchus rufus. Brown Thrasher.— Much 

 than the preceding species, but still frequently niet with, 

 brushy hillsides in the lower valleys. I did not detect it any^ 

 3000 feet, but was told that it is occasionally seen at Highlands 



Attlk 8> Apfil. 18da. p. 



specially on 

 where above 

 s (4000 feet). 



175 



Summer Birds of BuacomL-e-CouLty. • 

 N. Carolina. JohnS.Oairns. 



HarporhynvJiwrvfm. Brown Thrasher. Sum- i; 

 mer visitor; common. Arrives here generally on 

 the third or fourth of April, nesting in that ; 

 month Called Mocking-bird by the farmers. ' 

 A great many are shot each spring by the ; 

 farmers who say that they pull up their corn, i 

 Catbirds and Towhees also share the same 

 fate. 



O &0. XIV. Feb. 1889 p. 22 



Obs. on Summer Bir*« of Mountain 

 i'orB. Pickea* 0«, S.O. L.M.Loomis. 



67. Harporhynchus rufus. Buo 

 abundant, and mainly confined to th. 

 while singing, on the edge of a clear 

 highest altitude at which the species 



Auk. TII . April. 1800. p. 130. 



X rilRXSHliR, 'TlIRV 



open valleys. A mal 

 ig at about 2000 feet, w 

 as discovered. 



The same friend who eared for the Olive 

 Back, had a Brown Thrasher roost at night for 

 three weeks late in September, and the begin- 

 ning of October, in a honeysuckle on the end of 

 his rear 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. The yards between the rows 

 •-■"'-" -ises 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 populat(^d locality. 



Not 

 as shot, 

 was the 



0,&0. XIII. App. 1888 p.6V'47- 



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