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THRUSHES. 



west to northern Minn, north into the British Possessions ; 

 winters chiefly south of the U. S. Common, frequenting 

 moist thickets. Song, a series of fife-like notes, beginning 

 softly, gradually decreasing in volume, and ending imper- 

 ceptibly ; the exact tone and effect produced by it are indes- 

 cribably weird; alarm, a whistled "P/^ew." Nests on the 

 ground ; eggs, unspotted. 



5. NEWFOUNDLAND THRUSH, H. f. fuliginosa. 

 Differs from 5 in being paler above and more indistinctly 

 spotted below. Breeds in Newfoundland. 



b. ThrusLes. Turdus. 



Larger than a; wings, longer; white line over eye. 



1. RED- WINGED THRUSH, T. iliacus. 8.50; brown- 

 ish above; line over eye, stripe on sides of throat, and mid- 

 dle portions below, white; sides and flanks, reddish ; breast, 

 streaked with dusky. Northern Europe and Asia ; accidental 

 in Greenland. 



Fig. 381. 



CC, W, c, 1. 



