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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Alleghanian zone, practically absent from the spruce and balsam forests 

 of the Catskills and Adirondacks where it is displaced by the Olive-backed 

 and Bicknell thrushes. It arrives from the south from the 26th of April 

 to the 1 2th of May, slightly later in the northern counties, and in the fall 



Wilson thrush's nest and eggs 



by L. S. Horton 



usually disappears between the 5th and the 3Oth of September, rarely 

 later than the I5th. 



Haunts and habits. The Veery or Wilson thrush prefers a damper, 

 swampier forest than the Wood thrush and is usually very common in 

 those forests which are flooded early in the season, and in May and June 



