Turdus a. ^icknelllw 



1894. Hew Haanpshire. 

 Jtme 22. Breezy Point, Warren. 



by s';7arms of hungry "blaclv flies — Faxon and I wallied down the mouib-^ 

 tain to Merrill's, stopping for an hoiir or more at the place 7/here 

 we saw fotir Biclmell's Thrushes on the I8th. and searching long and 

 carefully for their nes#s among the dense thickets of yoimg ■balsams 

 which form an undergrowtli to a rather open woods of comparatively 

 large (30 to 40 feet in height) spruces and balsams. We heard one 

 Biclmell's Thrush singing and another calling among the balsams., 

 but vre found only one old nest, the third which we have seen here* 

 All three were in balsam saplimgs,/ the lowest only two feet, the 

 highest about seven feet, above the gpound^ion the lateral branches 

 close to the main sterns^ In the woods where I took the nest with 

 eggs we found an old nest, evidently a Thrush's, near the end of a 

 horizontal branch about three feet from the ground and five feet 

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

 space and no one could have passed it without seeing the nest. 



On the 18th BicknellJis Thrushes 'were singing or calling every** 

 where during the entire time we were on the upper part of the moun*=i 

 tain. To-day they were strangely silent. We heard only Wo or 

 three singing and not more than five or six calling. Tlie usual 

 call resembled at a distance the paap of Chordlelas :near the .pheu 

 of the Veery. One bird on the I8th clucked exactly like a Hermit 

 Thrush 



