. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. 158 USEFUL BIRDS. but seldom troubles cultivated varieties, is a harmless and most useful species. Taken all in all, it Wood Thrush. Song Thrush. Wood Robin. Hylocichla mustelina. Length. — About eight inches. Adult. —Above, mostly cinnamon-brown, reddest on head; eye ring white; below, mainly white, with large, rounded, dark-brown spots on breast and sides. Nes
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. 158 USEFUL BIRDS. but seldom troubles cultivated varieties, is a harmless and most useful species. Taken all in all, it Wood Thrush. Song Thrush. Wood Robin. Hylocichla mustelina. Length. — About eight inches. Adult. —Above, mostly cinnamon-brown, reddest on head; eye ring white; below, mainly white, with large, rounded, dark-brown spots on breast and sides. Nest. — On shrub sapling or low branch, six to ten feet up; much like that of the Eobin, hut usually composed of more woodsy material; the mud is often replaced by leaf mold. Eggs. — Usually four; greenish-blue; resembling those of the Eobin, but smaller. Season.—May to September. The Wood Thrush is, as its name indicates, primarily a bird of the woods, preferring the tall timber in some shady dell, where pure floods from the never-failing springs of the hills have gathered into a water course. Here, where the rushing stream dallies on its way among moss-grown rocks, where the skunk cabbage grows, where ranis? ferns and lush mosses hide the oozy ground, and where great swamp maples stand cool and tall, the Wood Thrush loves to dwell. Its apparent na- tive modesty and retir- ing disposition, its love for shade and solitude, seem to be prominent characteristics of this sylvan recluse. Still, of recent years the bird is often found about the haunts of men, particularly in places where it is protected, and where large and clustering shade trees aflford it cool retreats. Its carriage as it hops or runs upon the ground is somewhat like that of a Robin. Rather sedentary in habit, it seems to be confined during the breed- ing season to a limited area around its home, where its song may be heard more or less at all hours, but mainly during the cooler portions of the day, througho
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