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NAME- 



DATE- 



Brown Thrasher 

 (Toxostoma rufum) 



April 28, 1933 



A.0.U.N0 



705 



NO.- 



INCUBATION- 



Fresh 



SIZES- 



1 .03 x 0.80 

 1 .05 x 0.79 



1.05 x 0.80 

 1 .04 x 0.80 



SITUATION - On the west side of Powell's 

 River, across from the Ball Park in Big St@ne 

 Gap, Va. is an elliptical shaped hill about 

 125' high and perhaps 200 yds. long and maybe 

 100 yds. at its widest portion . It is well 

 known locally as Turtle-back. In addition to 

 a fair number of Yellow Locusts it also grew 

 many Hawthorne bushes up to 15' tall. Many of 

 these thorny plants grew singly, but most were 

 in groups. In one of the more dense^of^thjk 

 latter, this bird built its bulky nes^7of 

 thorn sticks and twigs which supported the 

 grasses, weed stems, grapevine bark. strips, 

 and leaves which made up the greater portion 

 of the nest. The lining consisted entirely of 

 fine rootlets . Nest dimensions were 



e 



Outside diam. : 9" 

 Height: k 



4 



Inside diam. : 4" 

 Depth : if" 



The four fresh, oval eggs were 

 pale bluish white, spotted and dotted with 

 reddish brown rather evenly and heavily over 

 the entire egg surface. 



