. Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . shes and low trees. Eggs: i ; pale greenish blue, sparsely marked with brown. Size From November to March the Varied Thrush, orVaried Robin, as he is sometimes called, ranges locallythroughout the western part of California and is one of the handsomest of our win-ter visitants. Wherever thereare holly berries, manzanita, ormistletoe there are sure to beflocks of these gaylyco
. Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . shes and low trees. Eggs: i ; pale greenish blue, sparsely marked with brown. Size From November to March the Varied Thrush, orVaried Robin, as he is sometimes called, ranges locallythroughout the western part of California and is one of the handsomest of our win-ter visitants. Wherever thereare holly berries, manzanita, ormistletoe there are sure to beflocks of these gaylycolored birds. Silentand shy, they takealarm at first sight ofan intruder and fly upthe caflon, lightinghere and there, butkeeping well ahead ofthe observer. Theyare often found, too,along salt-waterbeaches, sometimes incompany with theWestern robin, sometimes alone, but under all circum-stances as silent as if they never sang, contenting them-selves now and then with a rare chirp that is withoutthe faintest suggestion of their glorious summer music. When the first sunny spring days come, the VariedThrush starts on his trip northward, taking it by easystages, and en route he sometimes breaks into a sweet. 763. Varied Thrush. Silent and shy. DUSKY, GRAY, AND SLATE-COLORED 313 call-note, but is for the most part as silent as in the win-ter. By short stages he reaches his nesting ground, in thedark spruce forests from the northern limit of Californiato Alaska, and here only may one hear him sing. Evenhere he is the shyest of woodland choristers, seldomseen, though his weird music floats through the silentforest at twilight and dawn like the voice of a spiritbird. It consists of five or six notes in a minor key,each one uttered with a peculiar crescendo of its own,complete and perfect in itself, yet in perfect harmonywith the others. In July, when his mate is broodingsomewhere among the dense spruces, he chants hisevening, hymn as full of holy transport as that of thehermit thrush of
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