FAMILY Turdide. 
But far away, and far away, the Tawny Thrush is 
singing; 
‘New England’s w one at close of day, with that clear 
chant are ringing 
And when my light of life is low, onl heart and flesh 
are weary, 
I fain would hear before I go, the wood-notes of the 
Veery.” 
Gray-cheeked The Gray-cheeked Thrush is seen only in 
Thrush __ the time of migration, and its song from the 
Hylocichla alicia a 5 ‘ : F A 
L. 7.60 inches Musical point of view still remains undis- 
May 15th covered. That it must be distinctly differ- 
ent from the songs of all the other Thrushes goes without 
saying, but that there should be a radical difference in ton- 
ality, pitch, and scale, or in the thrushlike character of the 
melody, is next toimpossible. This Thrush is boreal, and to 
hear the song one must journey to the evergreen forests of 
northern Canada and Labrador. Without doubt, in the 
wildernesses of the far North and nowhere else, the music of 
this unfamiliar species would reveal something not to be 
found in any of the other Thrushes’ songs—the question is, 
what? During migration, as far as my knowledge goes, the 
bird does not sing, and the call note, a sharp, nasal cree-a, 
gives one no clew as to the character of the full song. Bick- 
nell’s Thrush is a sub-species, merely a smaller form of this 
Thrush, and if the relationship between the two is so very 
close, then there should be a correspondingly close resem- 
blance between their songs in some essential particular. 
The upper parts of the Gray-cheeked Thrush are brown- 
ish olive similar to that of the Olive-backed Thrush, the 
eye ring whitish, the region between the eye and the 
bill grayish, sides of the throat and the breast very slightly 
tinged with pale buff, the spotting exactly like that of the 
Olive-Backed Thrush. The nest is built of dry grasses, | 
leaves and shreds of bark lined with finer material. Egg, 
greenish blue flecked with burnt-sienna brown. 
This species breeds in the Hudsonian zone from Alaska 
and the western Yukon territory in the region of the 
Mackenzie River to central Ungava, Labrador, and New- 
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