Birds Observed at Ooosada. Alabama 

 N.C.Brown 



3. Turdus pallasi, Cab. Hermit Thrush. — Common and generally 

 distributed up to within a few daya of my departure. I was surprised, in 

 this southern latitude, to iind that the males became musical as spring 

 advanced. On March 16 I heard the first song, and during the following 

 three weeks it was one of the commonest wood sounds. 



BullN.O.O. 3, Oct., 1878, p. 199 



Winter Birds at Princeton, N.J. - Scott 

 //7f. 



On January 17j^ after a heavy fall of snow, there being from a 

 foot to eighteen inches on the ground, I took a male Hermit Thrush, 

 the only one seen during the month. 



BuU. N.O.O. 4, April, 1879, p. 81 



BirdB Obsd. at Gainesville, Pla. Nov. 

 27,'86-May27, 87. P.M. Chapman. 



147. Turdus aonalaschkse pallasii. Hermit Thrush. — Abundant in 

 the hummocks and common in the pineries. Several were heard singing 

 January 8, and from March 10 to 26, they sang occasionally. Few were 

 noted after the last named date until the time of their final departure, 

 April IS. 



Auk, V. July, 1888. p. 277 



I Winter Food of Birds in the South. 

 O. S. Brimley, Raleigh, N. O. 



! Hermit Thrush, {Hylocidila pallasi). Feeds 

 indisuriminately onallkuids of berries through- 

 out the winter— Dogwood, Frost Grapes, Cedar 

 and Holly being the favorites. 



O.&o. XII. July lae? p./^r. 



Abundance of the Hermit Thrush in winter near Washington, 

 D. C. —During the winter of 1879-80, the Hermit Thrush was commonly 

 distributed throughout the woods of the District of Columbia as well as 

 those of Alexandria County, Virginia. As the occurrence of this species 

 in winter is not recorded in the lists of District birds, I, at that time, 

 considered its appearance as exceptional and due to the unusual mildness 

 of the season. 



The present winter, however, has been one of remarkable severity in 

 this part of the country, the rivers having frozen in November, while the 

 ground has been covered with snow, from nine to twelve inches deep, since 

 December 20, On the ist of January, while hunting for birds among the 

 wooded hills which border the Virginia shore of the Potomac, I again 

 met with this species. These hills are very wild and steep, densely cov- 

 erved with a growth of young trees, and intersected by numerous deep 

 ravines, through which streams of water work their way to the river. In 

 these secluded places numbers of birds had sought shelter from the cold, 

 which, during the night, had been intense, the thermometer registering 

 a temperature of fourteen degrees below zero. The first Thrush noticed 

 was shot about ten o'clock in a clump of saplings a few yards from the 

 river's bank. In the course of the day seven other individuals were ob- 

 served. They frequented the most sheltered and tangled portions of the 

 ravines, principally near the summits of the hills. They were silent and 

 solitary, and so tame that they frequently permitted an approach to within 

 five or six yards before leaving their perch. 



My brother obtained another specimen in the same locality on the 4th 

 and reported them more numerous than on the ist. I observed three more 

 individuals in the woods bordering on Rock Creek on the 9th, a few hours 

 after a snow storm.— George Shoemaker, Georgetown, D. C. 



Bull,N.O.C. 6, April. 1881, p, //^-//f. 



