FAM. I. THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 



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Olive-backed Thrush 



ing in the mountains of the northeastern states and Nova Scotia ; migrat- 

 ing south in winter. Song very much like that of Wilson's Thrush. 



4. Olive-backed Thrush (758*. Tiirdus ustuldtus swainsdnii). 

 — A uniformly olive-backed thrush with the whole throat, 

 breast, and eye ring a deep 

 cream-buff, and the space in 

 front of the eye the same 

 color, instead of grayish as 

 in the last species. A very 

 shy bird, rarely seen, but 

 often heard in notes simi- 

 lar to the hermit thrush's, 

 though not so sweet. Its 

 summer home is among the 

 firs and spruces of the north. 



Length, 7^ ; wing, 3| ('^1-4^) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, IJ ; culmen, h East- 

 ern North America, mainly in the mountains ; breeding from northern 

 New England northward, and migrating in winter to South America. 



5. Hermit Thrush (TSS**. Turdus aonaldschkce palldsii). — A 

 small thrush with olive-brown back changing abruptly to cin- 

 namon-brown near the tail ; the throat and breast somewhat 



buffy, Avith dark 

 roundish spots abun- 

 dant on the sides of 

 the breast ; middle of 

 the belly white. A 

 retiring, though not 

 especially shy, bird, 

 with about the sweet- 

 est and purest notes 

 given by any of our 

 feathered friends. 



Length, 7 ; wing, 3i 

 (3^1) ; tail, 2| ; tar- 

 sus, \\ ; culmen, \. Eastern North America ; breeding from the north- 

 ern AUeghanies northward, and wintering from the northern states 

 southward. 



Hermit Thrush 



