Bird Observations 



tawny color across it, changing to whitish 

 lower down on the breast. The veery is 

 never as abundant here as the other 

 thrushes. 



May 1 6, 1896. I heard a veery give a 

 loud, curious, whistle this afternoon, then 

 a whining "whee-oo" several times, quite 

 a different sound from any other note I 

 ever heard from a thrush. 



May ii, 1897. I found two veeries 

 this a. m., both very easy to approach. 

 They seem less shy than other thrushes. 

 One had almost no perceptible spots on his 

 breast, in the other they were quite dis- 

 tinct. Both uttered the peculiar complain- 

 ing call. One made a series of odd 

 whining clucks, then changed the key sud- 

 denly to a low one, and then changed 

 again, so that he had quite a variety, and 

 confused me at first as to what bird it 

 could be. 



June 26, 1911. Heard a veery near 

 Stone Gate. Nearly every summer a pair 

 nests in the woods west of our house. I 

 have never found the nest, but I have 

 heard them singing or giving their peculiar 

 whining calls all through June and July. 



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