16 Mexican Ground Thrush. 
is easily di.stingui.shed by being of a lighter and more spotted 
brown. In lx»th sexes, the middles and shafts of the feathers 
on the head and shoulders are lighter than the outer portions. 
These Ground Thrushes are slightly smaller, I think, than the 
Orange -headed, and their heads are more finely built. The 
bills are dark grey, and the legs and feet pinkish. Very little 
seems to be known about this Thrush in its native haunts, 
and I "have not had them long enough to be able to say whether 
the male is a good songster, but he probably is. Besides a 
soft " cluck," both sexes have a very pretty call -note, which 
perhaps resembles a railway guard's whistle blown softly, the 
note falling at the end. It is decidedly melodious, and ufilike 
any other Thrush's note that I have heard. I have these birds 
in a cage as yet, and they are extremely steady and even in- 
clined to be tame, which as they had only just arrived from 
Mexico, one would hardly have expected. This bird is also 
known as Ridgway's Ground Thrush. I imagine it to be, up 
till now, a rare importation. 
A fine coloured illustration is to be found in Vol. I. of 
Seebohm's magnificent work " The Monograph of ine Turdidio 
Treatment for Fractured Leg, 
By De. L. Lovbll-Keays. 
Dr. L. Lovell-Keays, of East Hoathley, Sussex, kindly 
sends the following notes. — Ed. 
I thought the following notes on a case of fractured 
femur in a young Bullfinch, might be of interest. Mrs. Bon- 
nick, a member of F.B.C., brought me about a month ago, 
a young Bullfinch with the right femur fractured immediately 
above the femerotibial articulation. I made a slnall " external 
angular splint," consisting of a short flat piece of soft wood 
about one inch long and three sixteenths broad; I also took 
a small wooden match, and made a kind of mortise joint with 
Vthe two (see fig). I then fixed 
them at an angle of about 120 
degrees, and securely bound them 
with black cotton as shown. Hav- 
nig thus prepared my splint I next 
firmly but gently held the bird and 
fixed the lower (match) end to the 
outside of leg with black cotton, 
