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WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Wood Thrush. — Contin. 



small bell, and seems to leave the conclusion suspended. Each part of its 

 song seems sweeter and richer than the preceding." — Baird, Brewer, and 

 Kidgway : North American Birds. Land-Birds, vol. i p. 9 



" The prelude to this song resembles almost the double- tonguing of the 

 flute, blended with a tinkling, shrill, and solemn warble, which re-echoes 

 from his solitary retreat like the dirge of some sad recluse, who shuns the 

 busy haunts of life. The whole air consists usually of four parts, or bars, 

 which succeed in deliberate time, and finally blend together in impressive 

 and soothing harmony, becoming more mellow and sweet at every repeti- 

 tion." — Nuttall, T. : Manual of Ornithology, p 391. 



See Our Birds. (New Eng. Mag., vol. i., 1831, pp. 330-331.) 



Big-tree Thrush. 



Mr. L. Belding, in his paper, " The Small Thrushes of 

 California " (Calif. Acad. Sci., Proceedings, 2d ser., vol. ii., 

 Oct. 1, 1889, pp. 68, 69), gives the song of the big-tree 

 thrush {Turdus sequoiensis). 



Slow. 



Compare first two measures of No. 1 with this : — 

 Wood Thrush. 



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And first measure of No. 2 with this : — 



Wood Thrush. 



