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MANUAL OF TAXIDERMY. 
another, by some species, and many are found on 
the beaches, and on the ocean itself. Following 
are some of the localities in which our American 
species are to be found ; and, presumably, foreign 
birds of the same families will occur in similar 
places. 
Turdid^: : Thrushes. —Of these, the robin is 
the most common and is found everywhere. Next 
among the true thrushes are the olive-backed, 
hermit, and allied species. These occur usually 
in woodlands, and are rather shy, keeping at a dis- 
tance. The wood thrush inhabits deeply-wooded 
glens. The mocking thrushes prefer thickets in 
the neighborhood of dwellings, — for example, the 
cat-bird. The brown thrush also inhabits thick- 
ets, but are not, as a rule, fond of the society of 
man, while the smaller thrushes, of which the 
golden-crowned is an example, prefer the wood- 
lands ; and the two water thrushes are found in 
swampy localities. 
Saxicolid^; : Stone-chats. — The blue-birds 
are often sociable, building in orchards and farm- 
yards, while the western species appear to prefer 
mountain cliffs as breeding-places. The rare stone- 
chat is, I think, found in open sections where it 
occurs at all. 
