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sing.* I am quite sure of having heard Swainson's 

 thrush in the vicinity of Lake Placid, and in the In- 

 dian Pass, in the Adirondacks, as well as among the 

 mountains of Sandwich, !N". H. 



Swainson's thrush is light brown in color, tinged 

 over the throat, breast, sides of neck and head with 

 yellow. The general tone is not reddish like that of 

 Wilson's thrush, but a warm light brown with a 

 strong olive cast on the back and wings. The nest 

 is built on or near the ground, and the ee^s are 



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green-blue, freely speckled with madder-brown. 



The song of this bird is not, it seems to me, so 

 easily distinguished from that of the wood thrush, 

 but it is more deliberate and less scintillant than that 

 of the hermit. Perhaps the most familiar theme is 



this: 



But frequently his song is made up of one long and 

 two short notes which I can scarcely distinguish, ex- 

 cept by their quality, from those of the wood thrush. 



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* I can at least promise the wood thrush's song in central Ver- 

 mont and New Hampshire. 



