HERMIT THRUSR. 
In a letter recently received from Prof. Theodore Clark 
Smith, now of Williams College, Mass., he gives me a musi- 
cal sketch of a rather long song of the Olive-back show- - 
ing a series of ascending note-groups not unlike my 
notation above. 
Prof: J.C. Smith’ notation. 
This goes to prove that two observers have practi- 
cally arrived at the same conclusion, after having 
studied the Thrush in widely separated localities—for 
Prof. Smith’s notation was taken scores of miles away 
from Arlington Heights. I know of no other exist- 
ing records of the Olive-back’s music, and there are 
few descriptions of it in print. Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., of 
New York, writes, ‘‘ The effect of the beautiful song is 
much enhanced by the evening hush in which it is most 
often heard. It lacks the leisurely sweetness of the 
Hermit Thrush’s outpourings, nor is there pause, but in 
a lower key and with greater energy it bubbles on 
rapidly to a close rather than fading out with the soft 
melody of its renowned rival.” 
Hermit Thrush The Hermit Thrush, from a musical 
Algae point of view, is certainly the Nightingale 
L. 7.15 inches of America; there is no other woodland 
April 1sth singer who is his equal. His coloring is 
not particularly bright; on the contrary, it is rather 
more subdued than the quiet brown tones of the Wood 
Thrush. Upper parts olive-brown (sometimes more of a 
cinnamon brown) merging into a decided light red- 
brown on the tail; the spots wedge-shaped at tips of 
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