THE BIRDS OP PRINCETON. 10/ 



spirits of the old Indian sagamores. This 

 is certainly a more poetical explanation of 

 their hostility to the white man than to 

 attribute it to the effect of the white man's 

 gun. 



As for the thrushes, the robins, the brown- 

 thrushes, and the cat-birds are as abundant, 

 about Princeton as they are in the neigh- 

 borhood of Worcester. As for the smaller 

 thrushes, the sylvan minstrels par excel- 

 lence, the wood-thrush is heard constantly 

 in the grove just northwest of the village. 

 The veery, which I have heard repeatedly 

 this season and last in the peat-meadow 

 woods near Worcester, and which is, on 

 the whole, a common bird in that vicinity, 

 I have failed to hear at all in Princeton. 

 This was hardly unexpected to me, as I 

 knew that the veery generally lives in low 

 woods near ponds, and there are no ponds 

 near Princeton except Wachusett Pond, the 

 other side of the mountain, which I have 

 not yet visited. Now the hermit-thrush is 

 closely allied both to the wood-thrush and 

 the veery, but belongs to the Canadian 



