. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . n in an instructed mind, for the exhibition is ])lainly gratuitous. But thebrush keei)s the secret well, or, if it is forced, we find a bulky, loose-built afTairof coarse dead grasses and rootlets, lined with black rootlets or hi> placed either in an u|)right fork of a bush, or built around the ascendingstems of rank herbage at a few inches or at most two or three feet from thegroimd. Eggs, usually four in luimber. are deposited alxmt the first week inJune, an
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . n in an instructed mind, for the exhibition is ])lainly gratuitous. But thebrush keei)s the secret well, or, if it is forced, we find a bulky, loose-built afTairof coarse dead grasses and rootlets, lined with black rootlets or hi> placed either in an u|)right fork of a bush, or built around the ascendingstems of rank herbage at a few inches or at most two or three feet from thegroimd. Eggs, usually four in luimber. are deposited alxmt the first week inJune, and Tolmie babies swarm in July anil August, quite beyond the ex|)ecta-tion of our oological fore season. .\ word of explanation reganling the change (W name from Macgillivrayto Tolmie is in order. Townsend discovered the bird and really published itfirst, saying.* I dedicate the species to my friend. W. T. Tolmie. Ksq. of Kort\ancouver. .Audulxin. being entrusted with Townsends specimens, but dis-regarding the owners prior ritjlil-;. piiblisjicd tlie binl indeju-ndi-iitlv. and tardi- a. Xtrrative. April 1839. p 343. TOLMIE THE GRINNEUL WATER-THI^JSH. ly, as it happened, as Sylzna tiuicgillivrayi, by wliicli specific name ii was longknown to ornithnlogisls. Macgillivray was a Scotch natnralist who never sawAmerica, but Tohiiic was at that time a snrgeon and later a factor of theHonorable the Hudson Bay Com|)any, and lie clearly deserves rememhranceat our hands for the friendly hospitality and cooperation which he invariablyextended to men of science. No. VVATKR Tl IRl SI I. A. C). V. Xi>. >75a. Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis Ridgw. Description.—.hliilts: .•\bf)vo sootv olivc-hrnwn. singularly uniform; belowwhile or tinged with |)ak yellow, everywhere (save on ali( centrally, undertail-covcrts and extreme chin) streaked with sooty olive, the streaks small andwedge-shaped on throat, increasing in size posteriorly on breast, sides and fla
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