. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ven her ;but with dearly paid-for wisdom she now most frequently selectsa low shrub or tree to cradle the two broods that all too earlyin the summer effectually silence the fathers delightful song. Wilsons Thrush (Turdusfuscescens) Thrush family Called also: VEERY; TAWNY THRUSH Length—7 to inches. About one-fourth smaller than therobin. Male and Female—Uniform olive-brown, with a tawny cast of the throat white, with cream-buff on
. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ven her ;but with dearly paid-for wisdom she now most frequently selectsa low shrub or tree to cradle the two broods that all too earlyin the summer effectually silence the fathers delightful song. Wilsons Thrush (Turdusfuscescens) Thrush family Called also: VEERY; TAWNY THRUSH Length—7 to inches. About one-fourth smaller than therobin. Male and Female—Uniform olive-brown, with a tawny cast of the throat white, with cream-buff on sides ofthroat and upper part of breast, which is lightly spotted withwedge-shaped, brown points. Underneath white, or witha faint grayish tinge. Range—United States, westward to plains. Migrations—May. October. Summer resident. To many of us the veery, as they call the Wilsons thrush inNew England, is merely a voice, a sylvan mystery, reflecting thesweetness and wildness of the forest, a vocal will-o-the-wispthat, after enticing us deeper and deeper into the woods, wherewe sink into the spongy moss of its damp retreats and become 122. WILSONS Life-size. Brown, Olive or Grayish Brown, and Brown and Gray Sparrowy Birds entangled in the wild grape-vines twined about the saplingsand underbrush, still sings to us from unapproachable , if we want to see the bird, we must let it seek us out onthe fallen log where we have sunk exhausted in the chase. Presently a brown bird scuds through the fern. It is athrush, you guess in a minute, from its slender, graceful first you notice no speckles on its breast, but as it comesnearer, obscure arrow-heads are visible—not heavy, heart-shapedspots such as plentifully speckle the larger wood thrush or thesmaller hermit. It is the smallest of the three commoner thrushes,and it lacks the ring about the eye that both the others and elusive, it slips away again in a most unfriendly fashion,and is lost
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