Kotos- Eggs of Thrushes & Thrashers^ 

 H. a. Parker. ^ 



! Brown Thrasher {Ilarporliynclms rufus) . Sets 

 of Ave eggs are taken as often as sets of four in i 

 this locality. They are of a greenish white or i 

 soiled white, more or less covered with reddish | 

 brown dots. They show great variations — a 

 dark green ground with reddish spots being the 

 luosc beautiful and at the same time the rarest 

 phase. Another variety has a lighter ground 

 of green with spots. One set might be called 

 albinos, the spotting being quite obscure, re- 

 vealing an egg almost white. Another set pre- 

 sents a roseate appearance, owing to its being 

 covered with bright red spotting all over the 

 eggs and glistening in the light. Others are 

 artistically ringed about the greater extremity, 

 and thus might be detailed an endless variety, 

 both in size, shape and color. They present 

 nearly eveiy conceivable phase and yet to niy 

 eye do not possess the characters shown in a 

 series of the Mexican bird (IJarporhynchus rufus 

 lotujirofitriH), though it would be difficult to ex- 

 plain the difference on paper. The average 

 measurement of thirty-six eggs is 1.03 x.80. 



O.&O. XII. May. 1887 p. 71 



17. Harporhynchus rufm. Brown Thrasffier. 1 

 April 30, I found a nest with three of the own- 

 er's eggs and one egg of the Cowbird. This I 

 believe is an unusual instance, both the early 

 date of finding and the bird in whose nest it [ 

 was laid. ,1 



O.&O. XlV.Sept. 1^89 p 134 



Two Days Egging In Jvme. Ames, Iowa 

 Oari Prltz-Henning. June 14. 



Set IV. Brown Thrasher ; nest was made 

 1 of twigs, dried leaves, strips of bark and fine 

 roots, lined with hair. Three eggs in set, 

 thiciily sprinkled over the entire surface with 

 I reddish brown specks. 



0.4lO.¥oL18.Sept.l898 p. 121 



Two Dare Sgffing in June. Ames, Iowa 

 Oari Frits-Henning. June 16. 



After breakfast we started out. Our first 

 find was four pretty eggs of the Brown 

 Thrasher ; nest was placed three feet from 

 ground in willow. 



O.A O. Vol. 18^ Sept. 1893 p. 123 



Brown Thbush, {Harporhynchus rufus). 

 Found nest with three eggs, one of which 

 was less than one-third the usual size. 



0. 5: 0. IX. Mar. 1804 . d A 



The Brown Thrush laying in the Nest of the Wood Thrush. — As 



the present season has proved to be prolific in birds laying- large sets of 

 eggs, I was induced to look into a nest of a Wood Thrush, from which 

 the female was with difficulty driven off, when, in addition to her own 

 chitch of four eggs I was very much surprised to see two typical eggs of 

 the Brown Thrush, which, I believe, is the first record of the kind. The 

 nest was placed in a maple, about three feet from the ground, in a quite 

 thick ravine very seldom frequented; so this occurrence cannot be placed 

 to the pranks of some boy. Again, the Brown Thrush is not common in 

 this vicinity, and its nest is quite a rarity, so that any boy of 'birds-eggs- 

 collecting proclivities' would have been more apt to keep the eggs than 

 to place them in another nest, which might not have been the case had 

 the species been a Robin. Catbird, or some common bird. Near the 

 spot where this nest was found a Brown Thrush was heard singing, but 

 all efforts to find its nest were fruitless. The eggs of the Wood Thrush 

 proved to have been incubated about seven days; those of the Brown 

 Thrush not over two or three days. This unique set was taken June s, 

 i8S6, and is now in the collection of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York.— H. B. Hmt.ry, Souih Orange, N. J. 



Aok. 4. Jan.. 1887. p. 



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I Brown Thrush, the same numbcr,j^292 cubic 

 inches. Variations, less than four per cent, 



