iS) THE WILLOW THRUSH. 
whistled wheé-cw,; and this, in turn, is varied and strengthened to ve-er-u, or 
Veery, whence the common name of the typical form, H. fiscescens, in the 
East. The song proper consists of six or seven of these ve-er-ys, rolled out 
with a rich and inimitable brogue. The notes vibrate and resound, and fill the 
air so full of music that one is led to suspect the multiple character of each. 
The bird is really striking chords, and the sounding strings still vibrate when the 
next is struck. There 
is, moreover, in the 
whole performance, 
a musical crescendo 
coupled with a suc- 
cessive lowering of 
pitch, which is fairly 
ravishing in its im- 
pression of mystery 
and power. 
The distribution 
of this species is as 
yet imperfectly made 
out. Having made 
its acquaintance at 
Spokane and along 
the valley of the 
Pend d’Oreille, we 
were able to recog- 
-nize it later at Che- 
lan and Stehekin, the 
latter unquestionably 
the westernmost rec- 
ord of its occurrence 
in the United States. 
Papen Whether it may also 
Heniss7e kane: extend further south 
ns et along jthe east/inont 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE WILLOW THRUSH. of the Cascades, re- 
mains to be seen. 
A nest before me was taken by Mr. Fred S. Merrill, in Spokane. It was 
placed in the crotch of an alder at a height of two feet, and contained, on the 
ninth day of June, four slightly incubated eggs. The nest is a rather loosely 
constructed affair of bark-strips, dead leaves, coarse grasses, shavings, leaf- 
stems, etc., and has a careless lining of dessicated leaves and broken grasses. 
The matrix of mud, or leaf-mold, which gives strength and consistency to the 
