WOODLAND BIRDS, 



No. 122. OLIVE BACKED THRUSH. 



Species: T. ustulatus swainsonii. 



Distribution: 



Common summer resident of northern New England, south of 

 Vermont and New Hampsliire a migrant. 



Date of Arrival: 

 Last of May. 



Date of Departure: 

 Late September. 



Date of Departure: 



Upper parts olive ; under parts buff, breast spotted with 

 dusky, buff ring around eye. Bill dark, feet pale. Length 

 about 7.50. 



Song and Other Notes: 



Perhaps the most ordinary Thrush song and the following 

 notes peculiar to season, '^ chuck," " chit, chit," and a low 

 ''peep." 



Haunts: 



To be met in orchards, shady hillsides, swampy woodland 

 along the country roads. 



