86 IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 



ference of spelling.^ Others of the family were 

 the golden - crowned thrush, the small -billed 

 water- thrush, the yellow-rumped, the Black- 

 burnian (with his characteristic zillup, zillup, 

 zilliip)^ the black-throated green, the black- 

 throated blue (the last with his loud, coarse 

 hree^ kree, kree)^ the redstart, and the elegant 

 blue yellow-back. Altogether, they were a gor- 

 geous company. 



But the chief singers were the olive-backed 

 thrushes and the winter wrens. I should be 

 glad to know on just what principle the olive- 

 backs and their near relatives, the hermits, dis- 

 tribute themselves throughout the mountain 

 region. Each species seems to have its own 

 sections, to which it returns year after year, 

 and the olive-backed, being, as is well known, 

 the more northern species of the two, naturally 

 prefers the more elevated situations. I have 

 found the latter abundant near the Profile 

 House, and for three seasons it has had exclu- 

 sive possession of the White Mountain Notch, — 

 so far, at least, as I have been able to discover.^ 

 The hermits, on the other hand, frequent such 

 places as North Conway, Gorham, Jefferson, 

 Bethlehem, and the vicinity of the Flume. 



1 He is said to have another song, beautiful and wren-like; but 

 that I have never heard. 



2 This is making no account of the gray-cheeked thrushes, who 

 are found only near the tops of the mountains. 



