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1872 
June 2-14 
lar sapling. 
E. minimus . Abundant but locally distributed: not found in 
the forest depths. 
E. fl aviventris. Heard at last the bona fide song of the male, 
a single sl-ap, something like the che bee of E. minimus, and 
repeated at intervals of about 20 seconds. Found them as last 
year in the cedar swamps, but they were much more numerous in 
the willow thickets along the edge of Cambridge river. 
Turdu s pallasii. Not very common and found only in certain lo¬ 
calities: while T. Swainsonii was the thrush of the woods and 
the heavy timber along the streams, this bird affected the high 
open pastures where the males sang along the edge of the forest. 
Two nests found June 3rd and 11th contained each 3 nearly fresh 
eggs and were both built at the foot of a little fir shrub in 
open pasture land fifty yards or more from the woods. Their 
notes differed from those of T. swainsonii in being much finer 
higher and more ethereal and far surpassed those of both that 
bird and T. mustelinus. The olive back’s song is more properly 
compared with that of T. fuscescens: it is the same metallic 
trill shortened and ending in a few bell like notes either with 
a rising or falling inflection: these final notes give it some¬ 
what of a resemblance to the sone of T. pallai song, but it is 
easily recognized after a little experience. 
T, fus ce scens . Found them rather common up along Cambridge river. 
T. sw ainsonii. Very common everywhere: usually sang low down 
and had a habit of flitting a few feet at the end of each utter- 
