North America. It nests in trees or bushes, packing wet, decaying leaves and 

 wood fiber into a paste, which dries and resembles the mud nest of the robin. 

 It, too, gets its food in the litter of leaves and wet places, choosing fens and 

 cranberry bogs in the pastures. All the thrushes delight in berries, and any 

 berry-patch, wild or cultivated, is the bird's own patch of ground. 



The sadder the day the sweeter the song of the woodthrush. Nature-lovers 

 who stroll into the thickest of the woods of a cloudy day on purpose to make 

 the acquaintance of the thrush will find 



"The heart unlocks its springs 

 Wheresoe'er he singeth." 

 The notes of all the thrushes are singularly sweet, and may be recognized 

 by their low, tinkling, bell-like tones. 



At the funeral of Cock Robin, who did not survive his wedding-day in the 

 legend, it was the thrush who sang a psalm, and he was well qualified, "as he 

 sat in a bush," if such a thing were possible, no doubt bringing tears to his 

 feathered audience. 



The "throstle with his note so true" in the garden of Bottom, the fairy in 

 "Midsummer Night's Dream," was the thrush of Shakespeare's own country. 

 No fairy's garden is complete without this sweet singer described so truly by 

 Emily Tolman. 



"In the deep, solemn wood, at dawn I hear 

 A voice serene and pure, now far, now near, 

 Singing sweetly, singing slowly. 

 Holy oh, holy, holy; 

 Again at evening hush, now near, now far — 

 Oh, tell me, are thou voice of bird or star? 

 Sounding sweetly, sounding slowly, 

 Holy; oh, holy, holy." 



The Rinjg Necked Pheasant {Phasianus torquatus) 



By I. N. Mitchell 



Length : 30 or more inches of which 16 is tail. 



Range: China, introduced in Oregon and several other states. 



Like the domestic fowl, which it closely resembles in its internal structure 

 and its habits, the pheasant is an omnivorous feeder ; grain, herbage, roots, berries 

 and other small fruits, insects, acorns, beech mast, are alike acceptable to it. 

 Naumann gives the following detailed description of its dietary on the continent : 

 "Its food consists of grain, seeds, fruits and berries, with green herbs, insects, 

 and worms, varying with the time of year. Ants, and particularly their larvae, are 

 a favorite food, the latter forming the chief support of the young. It also eats 

 many green weeds, the tender shoots of grass, cabbage, young clover, wild cress, 



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