WOOD THRUSH. 
The song of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is composed of a 
series of soft, drawling whistles comparable to some of the 
notes of the Nightingale, but without the volume and 
passionate character of the latter bird’s music. I have no 
transcript of the song, and only one of the call note, which 
has been compared to the twanging staccato tone of a banjo 
string, that is, the thumb or melody string, usually G, thus: 
8vd. A 
aa Tang! 
in quality it bears some resemblance to the Nuthatch’s 
yank though in much higher pitch, and has been called by 
one author “‘a complaining or snarling note.” 
Family Turdide. THRUSHES, ROBIN, BLUEBIRD, ETC. 
This large family includes about three hundred species. 
About one half of these represent the true Thrushes. 
Of the Thrushes some twelve species are found in the 
United States, four of which are tolerably though locally 
common. The Thrushes are distinctive woodland birds, 
some of them retiring to the fastnesses of the northern 
forests and choosing high altitudes for their breeding 
places. As musicians all are singularly gifted, and in 
the case of the Hermit Thrush we are in possession of 
the most talented and brilliant melodist in the world, the 
Nightingale not excepted. 
Wood Thrush = =The Wood Thrush is the most strikingly 
aoa marked member of his tribe, and certainly 
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L.8.25inches ON€ of the sweetest of singers. His coloring 
May icth is more pronounced than that of the other 
Thrushes. Upper parts cinnamon or sienna brown, 
prighter on the head, and merging gradually into light 
olive-brown on the tail; under parts white conspicu- 
ously marked with large round sepia-black spots; throat 
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