Tiirdus a. blQtaielli . 

 Breezy Point, Y/arren, N.H. Nest and eggs. 



1894. the crest of the ridge the trees were stunted and matted to- 

 June 22. gether but those about the nest were twelve to fifteen feet 

 (No.4). in heig^^ and of nearly normal habit although if, as is pos- 

 sible, they were of considerable age, they were of course much 

 dwarfed. We could find no spruces in these woods. They do 

 not appear, indeed, until several hvmdred feet lower do'wn. 

 Later in the day - after lunching at the cold spring where we 

 were assailed by swarns of hi:jigry black flies - Faxon aiid I 

 walhed down the raountain to Llerrill's, stopping for an hour 

 or more at the place where v/e saw foizr Bic3<riell's Thrushes on 

 the loth, and searching long and carefully for their nests 

 among the dense thickets of young balsams which form an under- 

 growth to a ratlier oy,en woods of comparatively large (30 to 

 40 ft. in heigid^) spruces and balsai^is. V/e heard one Bicknell'j 

 Thrush singing and another calling among the balsams but we 

 found only one old nest, the third which we have seen here. 

 All three were in balsam saplings, the lowest only two feet, 

 the highest about seven feet, above the groimd on the lateral 

 branches close to the main stems. In the woods where I took 

 the nest with eggs vie foimd an old nest, evidently a Thrush's 

 and doubtless a BicKnell's Thrush's, near the end of a hori- 

 zontal branch about three feet from the ground and five feet 

 from the trunk of the tree. The branch extended out into an 



