GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH 



May 12, 1896 



THE absence of the yellow eye ring 

 is the only way to distinguish this 

 thrush from the olive-backed. It sings a 

 low, sighing sort of a song, here, not its 

 full song. 



May 12, 1896. I heard and saw one 

 sing in this way. I have always thought 

 these faint breathed notes, which I have 

 heard so often issuing from the depths of 

 some evergreen tree, came from the veery, 

 but was undeceived today. It is a peculiar 

 song, unlike any other, as if wet rubber 

 were rubbed together; it rises a little and 

 dies away, rises and dies away, in a sort 

 of cadence all as if it were singing under 

 its breath. 



May loth. I saw a thrush which seemed 

 to be the grey cheeked and which sang in 

 the same way, but this and the occurrence 

 of 1896 as noted above are doubtless cases 

 of mistaken identity. No doubt both birds 

 were veeries, which goes to prove that 

 that bird varies a good deal as to his color- 

 ing, and is by no means always so tawny. 



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