. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. WILSON'S THRUSH. 809 being quite scanty. The eggs, 3 or 4, some x -^S, in form and color are like those of the Robin. When the nest of this species is disturbed or even approached, it has an animated twitter, almost as character- istic as its song, also a soft chuck. I do not find this bird particularly shy, as compared with other birds of the woods. Like other Thrushes, it is often on the ground, not infre- quently utters its song from a log or stump, and seldom alights abo
. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. WILSON'S THRUSH. 809 being quite scanty. The eggs, 3 or 4, some x -^S, in form and color are like those of the Robin. When the nest of this species is disturbed or even approached, it has an animated twitter, almost as character- istic as its song, also a soft chuck. I do not find this bird particularly shy, as compared with other birds of the woods. Like other Thrushes, it is often on the ground, not infre- quently utters its song from a log or stump, and seldom alights above the lower story of the woods. Berries and insects constitute its fare. Its flight is regular, and not very rapid. » About 8 inches long, the upper parts are bright brown, reddish on the head, dusky on the rump and tail, eye-lids white, ear-patches dark brown and white striped, under- parts white, breast creamy, the dark-brown arrow-shaped spots being quite large and running in chains. The males and females are alike, after the manner of the Thrushes. Migrating to New £ngland early in May, very rare in southwestern Maine, it extends further north into Canada West. I found it common about Manitoulin Island, and heard its song in the Lacloche Mountains. Early in autumn it leaves us for its winter home in Central America. Audu- bon reported a few on the gulf coast in winter, but Mr. Maynard did not find it in Florida. Wilson's thrush. From a thicket of undergrowth near by there comes a loud quel ulous note, which may be spelled as chree-u. I rec- ognize it at once as the alarm note of Wilson's Thrush {Turdus fuscescens)f a very common summer resident of this locality, arriving early in May and leaving early in September. There, he has alighted on a large stump within two rods of me, and in full view. Some long, or more, he is rather .1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration a
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