. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . , twil-ah! no two birds seeming to sing preciselyat once but continually echoed themselves and each is not this bird called the Echo Thrush ? The namewould reveal its identity to any one who had ever heard thesong. The music lasted until after nine oclock, when it diedaway in a whisper like a benediction of the night and theWhip-poor-will was left as sentry for the midnight hours. Gray-cheeked Thrush: Turdus alicice. Length: inches. Male and Female: No eye ring. Head and back uniform olive-brown. Throat bu
. Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds . , twil-ah! no two birds seeming to sing preciselyat once but continually echoed themselves and each is not this bird called the Echo Thrush ? The namewould reveal its identity to any one who had ever heard thesong. The music lasted until after nine oclock, when it diedaway in a whisper like a benediction of the night and theWhip-poor-will was left as sentry for the midnight hours. Gray-cheeked Thrush: Turdus alicice. Length: inches. Male and Female: No eye ring. Head and back uniform olive-brown. Throat buff and slightly speckled; sides dull grayish white, the specks running into a wash. Cheeks gray; bill : In tone like other Thrushes, but differently accented — Wee-o, wee-o, tit-ti wee-o ! (Torrey.)Season: May, remaining a week or so ; return migration in : Northward from northern New England; and var. bicknelli in New York and New : In bushes made of moss, twigs, and grass.£ggs: 4, greenish blue, speckled with brown. PLATE OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. Length, inches. SONG-BIRDS. Thrushes Bange: Eastern North America, west to the Plains, Alaska, and east-ern Siberia, north to the Arctic coast, south in winter to CostaRica. This Thrush is one of the rarest in southern New Eng-land. It is a near relative of the Olive-backed Thrush,from which it differs in having gray sides to the head andin being somewhat larger. A few of the Gray-cheekedThrushes come to the garden and lane every spring and fall;but even these migratory visits are very irregular. Brad-ford Torrey, whose White Mountain experience has broughthim into intimate contact with Bicknells Thrush (as thoseindividuals which breed in the mountains of New York andNew England are called) during its season of song, saysthat ... while the Gray-cheeks song bears an evidentresemblance to the Veerys, . . the two are so unlike inpitch and rhythm that no reasonably nice ear ought everto con
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