86 IN THE WHIT MOUNTAINS. 
ference of spelling.1 Others of the family were 
the golden-crowned thrush, the small - billed 
water-thrush, the yellow-rumped, the Black- 
burnian (with his characteristic z2llup, zillup, 
zillup), the black-throated green, the black- 
throated blue (the last with his loud, coarse 
kree, kree, kree), the redstart, and the elegant 
blue yellow-back. Altogether, they were a gor- 
geous company. 
But the chief singers were the olive-backed 
thrushes and the winter wrens. I should be 
glad to know on just what principle the olive- 
backs and their near relatives, the hermits, dis- 
tribute themselves throughout the mountain 
region. Each species seems to have its own 
sections, to which it returns year after year, 
and the olive-backed, being, as is well known, 
the more northern species of the two, naturally 
prefers the more elevated situations. I have 
found the latter abundant near the Profile 
House, and for three seasons it has had exclu- 
sive possession of the White Mountain Notch, — 
so far, at least, as I have been able to discover.? 
The hermits, on the other hand, frequent such 
places as North Conway, Gorham, Jefferson, 
Bethlehem, and the vicinity of the Flume. 
1 He is said to have another song, beautiful and wren-like; but 
that I have never heard. 
2 This is making no account of the gray-cheeked thrushes, who 
are found only near the tops of the mountains. 
