. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. MLMIC THRUvSHES /o decreasing in extent toward middle leathers ; an indis- tinct line of dull whitish over eye; lores, light grayish; speck below the eyes and the sides of head, light grayish-brown, narrowly streaked with dtiU whitish; cheeks and under parts, dull buffy-white passing into pale cinnamon-bufT on flanks, anal region, and under tail-cuverts; throat, bordered along each side by a narrow stripe, or series of streaks of dusky or black; lower throat, with sparse wedge-shaped small spots or streaks of dusky ; chest, breast, sides, and flanks
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. MLMIC THRUvSHES /o decreasing in extent toward middle leathers ; an indis- tinct line of dull whitish over eye; lores, light grayish; speck below the eyes and the sides of head, light grayish-brown, narrowly streaked with dtiU whitish; cheeks and under parts, dull buffy-white passing into pale cinnamon-bufT on flanks, anal region, and under tail-cuverts; throat, bordered along each side by a narrow stripe, or series of streaks of dusky or black; lower throat, with sparse wedge-shaped small spots or streaks of dusky ; chest, breast, sides, and flanks con- spicuously streaked with dark grayish-brown or sooty, the markings on chest in forin of wedge-shaped spots rather than streaks; under wing-coverts, pale grayish- buff; bill, dusky; iris, lemon-yellow. Nest and Eggs.— Xest : In low bushes, especially sage and cactus, from one to three feet above ground ; rough, bulky structure of coarse plant stems, dry sage bark, coarse grasses, and twigs, lined with line stems and rootlets. E<;gs : 3 to 5. with a .ground color of rich greenish-blue spotted with bright reddish-brown and a few lead-colored spots. Distribution.—Arid plains, mesas, and foothills of western United States ; breeds from the western border of the Great Plains, in western North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas to the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges ; north to Montana. Idaho, and eastern British Columbia; winters from southern California and mountains of central Texas to northern Mexico and Cape San Lucas, casually to Guadalupe Islaml. Oil the .sagebrush jilains, or the ragged desert mountains of the West, the Sage Thrasher makes its home. It resembles nothing so much as a young undersized Mockingbird. But for its spotted breast one might easily mistake it for this famous and better known songster. In the early spring, when the snows on the distant mountains are beginning to melt and the long wary ranks of wildfowl are
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