. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . ted feelings of wonder and delightin which, from the graceful antl sympathetic action, as well asenchanting voice of the performer, the eye is no less gratifiedthan the ear. It is, however, painful to reflect that these ex-traordinary powers of nature, exercised with so much generousfreedom in a state of confinement, are not calculated for longendurance, and after this most wonderful and interesting pris-oner has survived for 6 or 7 years, blindness often terminateshis gay career; and thus shut out from the cheering light, thes
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . ted feelings of wonder and delightin which, from the graceful antl sympathetic action, as well asenchanting voice of the performer, the eye is no less gratifiedthan the ear. It is, however, painful to reflect that these ex-traordinary powers of nature, exercised with so much generousfreedom in a state of confinement, are not calculated for longendurance, and after this most wonderful and interesting pris-oner has survived for 6 or 7 years, blindness often terminateshis gay career; and thus shut out from the cheering light, thesolace of his lonely bu-t active existence, he now after a timedroops in silent sadness and dies. The Mockingbird is a rare but regular summer visitor to RhodeIsland, Connecticut, and southern Massachusetts, and exampleshave been taken in Maine. Mr. Mcllwraith reports that a pairspent the summer of 1883 near Hamilton. Ontario, and C. records in the O. & O. the capture of one near Truro,N. S. The species is chiefly restricted to the Southern BROWN THRASHER. BROWN RUFUS. Char. Above, bright reddish brown or rufous ; beneath, white, tingedwith rufous or buff; breast and side spotted with brown; bill about aslong as the head. Length loVz to 12 inches. A^est. In a thicket or low bush, and sometimes on the ground ; bulky,and loosely constructed of twigs, roots, and dried grass, sometimes linedwith horse-hair or feathers. £^!;s. 3-6 (usually 4); dull white with buffer green tint, marked withminute spots of reddish brown; X This large and well-known songster, inferior to none but theMocking Bird in musical talent, is found in every part of thiscontinent, from Hudsons Bay to the shores of the MexicanGulf, breeding in all the intermediate space, though moreabundantly towards the North. It retires to the South early inOctober, in the States north of the Carolinas, and probably ex-tends its migrations at this season through the warmer reg
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