. Birds of North Carolina . cked Thrush. Description: Ad.—Tpperparts uiiiforiii olive; bark and tail practically tlio samo color; eye-ring deep crcani-buff, lores tlip same; whole throat and breast with a strong tinge of deep cream-buff or even oehraccous-lniff; the feathers of the sides of the tliroat with wedge-shaped black spot-sat their tips, of the breast with rounded spots at their tips; middle of the belly white;sides brownish gray or brownish ashy. ; \\ ., ; T., (j; B., ..)0. Jieniarks.—This bird will be confused only with the (iray-eheeked and Hieknells
. Birds of North Carolina . cked Thrush. Description: Ad.—Tpperparts uiiiforiii olive; bark and tail practically tlio samo color; eye-ring deep crcani-buff, lores tlip same; whole throat and breast with a strong tinge of deep cream-buff or even oehraccous-lniff; the feathers of the sides of the tliroat with wedge-shaped black spot-sat their tips, of the breast with rounded spots at their tips; middle of the belly white;sides brownish gray or brownish ashy. ; \\ ., ; T., (j; B., ..)0. Jieniarks.—This bird will be confused only with the (iray-eheeked and Hieknells Thrushes,from which it differs in the much stronger suffusion of buff on the throat and breast, its buff eye-ring and lores. (Chap., liiriln iif IJ. X. A.) Hiiiiyc.—North .\merica, except the Pacific coast, breeding mainly north of the United States,wintering in extreme southern Initc-d St;ites and southward. Range in North Carolina.—Transient in the central section of the State, occasionally breeds inthe ^2^.: FlO. 273. Thrcsh. The Olive-liacked Thrush has l)een observed at Raleigh from .\pril 22 to May17 in the spring, and from September 25 to October 17 in the fall. .\t Chai)el Hillit was taken on September 26 and October 9, 1897 (Pearson). In the mountainswe find it recorded from Blowing Hock Sept(-ml)er 12. 1898 (Koi)mau), and fromWeaverville Ai)ril 4 to 6, 1890, aitd September 2 to October 16. Cairns took anest May 20, 1896, on Cragg> Mountain (Smithwicks Catalogue), and Da\ds, ina migration schedule for 1899 from .\slieville, says it has been taken twice in sum-mer on the higher mountains. The nest is built in a bush or small tree usually from four to eight feet from theground, and is composed of leaves, shreds of bark, small twigs, and moss. Thethree or four eggs are greenish blue, sjieckled with rcddisli brown. Size .92 x .66. 340. Hylocichla guttata pallasi {Cab.). Hekmit Thrush. Dcxcripliiin: Ail.—lpi>erparls olive-brown, som
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