. 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. SONG BIHDS OF OEOHABD AND WOODLAND. 157. -Wilson's Thrush, two-thirds natural size. land, is among the earliest notes of the morning, and is often heard during the day and in the dusk of evening. It consists of several ringing phrases or triplets, which its name Veery describes fairly well. It is not so full-toned as the songs of other Thrushes, but has an atten
. 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. SONG BIHDS OF OEOHABD AND WOODLAND. 157. -Wilson's Thrush, two-thirds natural size. land, is among the earliest notes of the morning, and is often heard during the day and in the dusk of evening. It consists of several ringing phrases or triplets, which its name Veery describes fairly well. It is not so full-toned as the songs of other Thrushes, but has an attenuated sound. Robert Ridg- way expresses the quality of the phrases by the syllables " taweel'ah, taweel'ah, ah, ; The last two phrases lower in tone than the first, and enc with a vibrating chord which su gests the vanishing of the note into ethereal space. The melody often has a muffled sound when heard near by, but at a distance it seems to ring out clear. To be fully appreciated, this song pig. must be heard when one is alone in the deep woods, among the falling shades of the coming night. It breathes the spirit of the dying day. Sometimes at evening these Thrush songs reply to one another like echoes in the moonlight. The bird sings soon after its arrival in May, and usually ceases when the molting period begins. It sings little dur- ing a long drought, but becomes vocal after a rain. The ordinary note of the Veery is a sort of whee-00, half chirp, half whistle, which often has a peculiarly liquid sound. It has also a sharp chick, a prolonged, bleating aaah, and other occasional cries. The Veery feeds very largely on insects. Those which frequent the ground and the lower parts of trees are com- monly sought. Ants, ground beetles, curculios, and grass- hoppers are favorites. It goes to the fields sometimes at early morning, probably in search of beetles, cutworms, and earthworms. It has been seen, now and then, to eat the hairy caterpillars of the gips
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