Turdiis a /olGl;nelll . 

 Breezv Point, Y/arren, N.H. West and e^^gs. 



1894. characteristic squawli, another a soft rji . P or rteenX so very 

 Jirne 22. like that of T. swainsonii that we could not detect much dif- 

 (No.."?}. forence. Neither Faxon or I have ever heard this note before 

 to-day but Faxon heard it just Isefore we left the road and 

 told nie that he feared there was an Olive-back in the thicket. 

 Our bird was making it when I finally shot her but she proved 

 to be a Biclcnell's Thrush nevertheless. On dissecting her 

 afterwards I foiaid that she had laid all her eggs, although 

 the set comprised but throe. One was perfectly fresh, another 

 had the yelk slightly streaked with blood, in the third an 

 embryo had already beg\in to form. T}iis v/ould indicate that 

 the bird began sitting as soon as the first egg was laid - a 

 necessary precaution, doubtless, on this cold, exposed mo-un- 

 tain summit. 



The nest was bviilt in a balsa:ii about four feet from 

 the top and nine feet above the ground on a short horizontal 

 branch five inches out from the main stem. It was in no way 

 concealed and could be seen from a distance of several rods on 

 every side. We neither saw nor heard ar^lything of the male 

 bird during this second visit. On the IGth he was singing a- 

 bout 20. yards from the nest, The 7;oods were composed wholly 

 of balsams with a mixture of yellow birches. Along the upper 

 edge of the belt where the wind has an unobstructed sweep over 



