1 I shot a Heraiit Thrush 

 the middle of January, 



V O.&O. VllL Octfl883. p. i-6 



A Partial Albino Hermit Thrush {Turdus aoualasMa; fallasit).-! 

 have a male of this species taken in this vicinity October 27, 1SS5, which 

 has the top of the head and the back light gray. Below white, the spots 

 on the breast being fairly distinct. Tail and the primaries and second- 

 aries fawn color.— JNO. H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



Auk, 8, AprU, 1886. p. . 



General Notes. Notes from OonMoMoTlt. 



Jno. 1 S ige, PoTtlAnd.. 



Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii.— Two nests of the Hermit Thrush, each 

 containini^ lliree fresli eg^s, were taken at Norfolk, June 20 and 23, 1S93, ^ 

 bv Mr. Tival. He found this Thrusli common there. I tliink the actual 1 

 ncslin" dale in Connecticut has not previously been recortled.— Jno. H. I 

 ^^^K, Portland, Conn. Auk X . Oot , 1893 p 871. 



The Hermit Thrush Breeding in Litchfield County, Connecticut. — 



On July 23, 1910, I found a nest of a Hermit Thrush near the top of Bear 

 Mountain, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The nest was about a half 

 mile south of the Massachusetts line, and two or three miles east of the 

 New York line, and at an altitude of about 2300 feet. The bird was 

 flushed from the nest by a companion who was walking with me, and I 

 had only a momentary glimpse of it as it flew away. Although I re- 

 mained in the vicinity of the nest for quite a long time, the bird did not 

 return, but the glimpse that I had was sufficient to show that it was neither 

 a Wood Thrush nor a Wilson's Thrush. The locality and construction 

 of the nest, and the size and color of the eggs, seem to conclusively estab- 

 lish that of the remaining possible thrushes, the bird must have been a 

 Hermit Thrush. Dr. Louis B. Bishop, of New Haven, Conn., agrees with 

 this identification, and tells me that it is the second record for Connecticut. 



The nest was placed on a broad flat rock, under the shelter of a blueberry 

 bush, and was embedded in gray moss. The nest was deeply cupped, and 

 very neat. It was built externally of small sticks, most of them rotten and 

 pulverized; the next layer was of grasses and fine twigs, with a good deal of 

 green moss, and a few leaves, which, however, were not at all conspicuous, 

 the moss being worked up around the edge of the nest, so that the general 

 outer appearance of the nest was chiefly green. The nest was lined en- 

 tirely, and very neatly, with long pine needles. 



There were two fresh eggs in the nest, which measured .63 X .83 inches. 

 They were a pale blue. Upon comparison with my series of eggs, I find 

 that the blue is somewhat darker than that of a Bluebird, but fully as 

 light as either a Robin's or a Wood Thrush's. Compared with the eggs 

 of the WOson's Tlirush, the eggs are strildngly blue, and without any 

 pronounced greenish tinge. — Louis H. Pobteb, Stanford, Conn. 



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