206 BIRDS—-HERMIT THRUSH. 
ties they are very abundant. Towards the close of summer afternoons 
they seem to delight in mounting the higher branches of trees and join 
in an extemporaneous concert. Their song is short, their notes exceed- 
ingly liquid and sweet. 
I am indebted to Dr. Howard EK. Jones, of Circleville, for an albino of 
this species, which he killed in August, 1879. The entire upper parts 
are white, washed with pearl gray. The lower parts were pure white, 
the spots of the breast obsolete, the breast washed with delicate cream 
color. 
The nest is built in saplings and low trees, seldom more than twenty 
feet from the ground. It is constructed of leaves, sticks, and moss, min- 
gled and cemented with mud, with which it is also lined. The eggs are 
usually four in number, of a deep greenish blue color, and measure 1 by 
.7o inch. 
Misses Genevieve HE. Jones and Eliza J. Shultze give an exquisite 
figure of the nest and eggs of this bird in the first number of their ad- 
mirable “ Lilustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Ohio Birds.” 
TURDUS PALLASI. Cab. 
Hermit Thrush. 
Turdus minor, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163. 
Turdus solitarius, READ, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1863, 399; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., vi, 
395, 1853. 
Turdus pallasit, BArRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 213—-WuEaATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1860, 363; Reprint, 1861, 5; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agri. Rep. for 1874, 562; Re- 
print, 1875, 2.—Lanepon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 3: Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 
1878, 111; Reprint, 2; Revised List, Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1, 1879, 169; Reprint, 3. 
Turdus solitarius, WILSON, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 95. 
Turdus minor, BONAPARTE, Jour. Phila. Acad., iv, 1824, 33. 
Turdus pallasit, CABANIS, Arch. f. Naturg., 1847, 595. 
Above olive, shading into rufous on rump and tail. Below white, olive shaded on 
sides. Sides of head, eyelids, neck and breast strongly tinged with buff. Throat and 
breast marked with large dusky-olive spots. Length about 74; wing 34; tail 3. 
Habitat, Eastern North America. 
Spring and fall migrant in Central Ohio, possibly summer resident 
in some portions of Northern Ohio. Mr. Langdon states on the authority 
of Mr. Dury that the nest and eggs have been taken in the vicinity of 
Cincinnati. The Hermit Thrush is a common migrant in April and 
October. It arrives before the other small thrushes, and frequents sparce 
woodland, brush-heaps, and the wooded banks of streams. In its summer 
home it is said to have a sweet song, but with us its only note is a short 
