1871. 
Turdus pallasi. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Juno 2. 
“ 3. 
“ 9. 
1872. 
A nest containing three fresh eggs built on the top 
of a mossy log. 
A nest containing throe eggs far advanced in incuba¬ 
tion v/’as sunk in the side of a mossy hillock. 
A nest containing three nevrly hatched young. 
June 3- If Not very common and found only in certain localitie 
' |; chiefly pastures 6n the steeply sloping hill-sides, es- 
! pecially yrhere young firs and spruces are groviing up. 
I The males sang usually just inside the edge of the vroods 
** 11* Nest found to-day and one June 3; each contained 
I throe nearly fresh eggs. Both were built at the foot 
j of fir shrubs in open pasture fifty yards or more from 
I the v/oods. 
1873. 
Aug. 19. li Heard several males singing on the Mogallov^ay. 
1874. '■ p 
July 28.■ Listened to a grand concert of these Thrushes at 
Tyler Cove this evening. 
Shot two young in speckled plumage; they were 
clucking like old birds. 
I heard them passing overhead last night in great 
numbers, uttering the peculiar note which is seldom 
heard except at night. 
1876. 
Aug. 8. 
Sept. 9. 
A nest containing four eggs, in the same pasture 
jl where I took one in 1872, vras placed op a mound among 
spruce shrubs not over two feet high. The locality was 
al elevated open pasture growing up to young firs and 
spruces. The nest vms about twenty yards from the edge 
of the vroods where the male was singing perhaps fifty 
yards avvay. The female v/as sitting and rose about fif- 
j teen- feet ahead of mo. 
" A nest in rather open second-growth birch woods con¬ 
tained four eggs v/hich had been incubated about feup five 
days. I stepped within a few inches of it Virhen the fe¬ 
male, which sat unusually closely, glided off, running 
several yards before taking wing. This nest v^as sunk 
in the ground and prettily canopied by branches of throe 
littld fir shrubs. 
Several males singing in a deep ravine op Upton Hill 
The ?/oods dripping after a shower. 
1879. 
Juno 1. 
