FAMILY Turdide. 
minds one of the musical ripple of the blacksmith’s ham. 
mer as it bounces upon the anvil between the blows dealt 
to the red-hot horse-shoe. Could it be possible that the 
ancestor of this Thrush learned his song near the door- 
way of Mime’s forge! 
If one strings together a succession of the Wood 
Thrush’s triplets the result is rather pleasing: 
8ya. 
S41, legretto. 
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and not altogether different from the following song 
which was obtained in Englewood, N. J., on Hillside 
Avenue: 
The song of a bird which I listened to in the Arnold 
Arboretum, near Boston, is not essentially different from 
either of the above notations: 
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