BIRD BIOGRAPHIES 



proach within a few feet of her nest. We saw the shy 

 wood-bird, serene and unafraid, raise her brood in the 

 midst of noisy hammering, with friendly companionship 

 close at hand. 



THE OUVE-BACKED THRUSH 



THE Olive-backed Thrush is about an inch smaller 

 than tlie wood thrush (7 inches), and is uniformly 

 olive-brown above. Its breast, throat, cheeks, and eye- 

 ring are buff; its sides gray. The breast, sides of the 

 throat, and cheeks are spotted with black. 



Note: Its call-note is puck; its song pleasing, with a 



Song': phrasing that reminds one of the hermit thrush, but 



it is louder and less deliberate, and lacks, also, the 

 hermit's liquid sweetness. The olive-back has a habit 

 of singing from the pointed top of a tall spruce; 

 near by, on a neighboring treetop, an olive-sided 

 flycatcher may utter its Peep here, or a hermit may 

 sing in the grove below. 



Habitat: The olive-back lives in woods, rather than close to 

 the haunts of man; it prefers to be near streams and 

 swampy places, as does the western russet-back 

 THRUSH, a bird very similar in appearance and hab- 

 its. 



Range: The olive-back breeds in Canada and northern United 

 States, and winters from Mexico to South America. 



THE GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH AND BICKNELL's 



THRUSHES 



Gray-Cheeked Thrush: "The Gray-cheeked Thrush is found 

 in migration over all the Eastern States, but breeds 

 farther north, beyond our limits. 



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