AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



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Pine Warbler. 



Oven-bird. 



Water Thrush (Northern). 



Maryland Yellow-throat. 



Canadian Warbler. 



Redstart. 



Cat-bird. 



Brown Thrasher. 



Brown Creeper. 



White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Red-breasted Nuthatch. 



Chickadee. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



Olive-backed Thrush. (1902). 



Hermit Thrush. 



Robin. 



Blue-bird. 



When I have given a date it is to be understood that the bird has been ob- 

 served but once and in the year given. 



Hoping this may find way into your helpful magazine, I remain, 



Yours truly, 



Gordon Boit Wellman, 

 54 Beltran St., Maiden, Mass. 



THE WOOD THRUSH. 



In the dark, muggy shades of the woodland, 

 In the celandine and jewelweed lush, 



Sweetest, surely fairest of music, 

 I hear the voice of the Thrush. 



Full of mystery, unsolved, unsolvable, 



Voicing the infinite promise, 

 Fraught with happiness, joy indissolvable, 



I hear the voice of the Thrush. 



In the cool of the morning, the heat of the noon, 



In the quiet of vesper hush, 

 Unchanged, ever true, all sublime, 



I hear the voice of the Thrush. 



Full of love, to mate, to God, 



Singing of boundless content, 

 Telling of great grief, yet greater joy, 



I hear the voice of the Thrush. 



— N. F. 



