The nest is usually built on the horizontal branch of a small forest-tree, six or eight feet from the ground, and, less frequently, in the fork of a bush. The diameter is about 5 inches, and the depth 3¾, with a cavity averaging 3 inches across by 2¼ in depth. They are firm, compact structures, chiefly composed of decayed deciduous leaves, closely impacted together, and apparently thus combined when in a moistened condition, and afterward dried into a firmness and strength like that of parchment. These are intermingled with, and strengthened by, a few dry twigs, and the whole is lined with fine roots and a few fine dry grasses. Occasionally, instead of the solid frame of impacted leaves, we find one of solidified mud. The eggs of the Wood Thrush, usually four in number, sometimes five, are of a uniform deep-blue tint, with but a slight admixture of yellow, which imparts a greenish tinge. Their average measurements are 1.00 by .75 inch. Turdus fuscescens, STEPHENS. TAWNY THRUSH; WILSON’S THRUSH. _Turdus mustelinus_, WILSON, Amer. Ornithology, V, 1812, 98, pl. 43 (not of GMELIN). _Turdus fuscescens_, STEPHENS, Shaw’s Gen. Zoöl. Birds, X, I, 1817, 182. CAB. Jour. 1855, 470 (Cuba).—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 214.—IB. Rev. Am. B. 1864, 17.—GUNDI. Repertorio, 1865, 228 (Cuba, not rare). PELZELN, Orn. Bras. II, 1868, 92. (San Vicente, Brazil, December.)—SAMUELS, 150.—SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1859, 326.—IB. Catal. Am. Birds, 1861, 2, No. 10. _Turdus silens_, VIEILL. Encyclop. Méth. II, 1823, 647 (based on _T. mustelinus_, WILS.). _Turdus wilsonii_, BON. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 73. _Turdus minor_, D’ORB. La Sagra’s Cuba, Ois. 1840, 47, pl. v (Cuba). SP. CHAR. Above, and on sides of head and neck, nearly uniform light reddish-brown, with a faint tendency to orange on the crown and tail. Beneath, white; the fore part of the breast and throat (paler on the chin) tinged with pale brownish-yellow, in decided contrast to the white of the belly. The sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast, as colored, are marked with small triangular spots of light brownish, nearly like the back, but not well defined. There are a few obsolete blotches on the sides of the breast (in the white) of pale olivaceous; the sides of the body tinged with the same. Tibiæ white. The lower mandible is brownish only at the tip. The lores are ash-colored, the orbital region grayish. Length, 7.50; wing, 4.25; tail, 3.20; tarsus; 1.20. HAB. Eastern North America, Halifax to Fort Bridger, and north to Fort Garry. Cuba, Panama, and Brazil (winter). Orizaba (winter), SUMICHRAST.