I-AMILY lurdidae. 



white defined on either side by a line of small apoia ex- 

 tending from the bill to the markings on breast. Female 

 similarly marked. Nest usually in young trees or saplings, 

 and lodged from eight to ten feet above the ground; it is 

 built of twigs, roots, and dead leaves; an inner wall of 

 mud is lined with fine rootlets and shreds of plant-stems. 

 Egg green-blue like that of the Robin. This Thrush 

 is distributed over the eastern United States westward 

 to the Plains, and northward to Minnesota, Michigan, 

 Ontario, Quebec, Vermont, and southern (rarely central) 

 New Hampshire. It breeds from Kansas, Kentucky, 

 and Virginia northward, and winters in Central Amer- 

 ica. I have heard the Wood Thrush sing along with the 

 Hermit Thrush on the slopes of Mt. Monadnock, and not 

 infrequently his voice is a familiar one in the vicinity of 

 Lake Winnepesaukee, and as far north as Franconia and 

 Jefferson, N. H. 



There are very few of the woodland singers that are 

 equally gifted with the Wood Thrush; only the Hermit 

 excels him in melody and in brilliant execution, and it is 

 a question whether any of his other relatives can rival 

 him either in tone of voice or in song motive. His notes 

 are usually in clusters of three, and these are of equal 

 value * ; the commonest one of the clusters is an admira- 

 ble rendering of the so-called tonic, the third, and the 

 fifth tones, thus: 



Come to me 



That is one of the best things the Thrush can do, and he 

 does it splendidly too; there is no doubt about his inter- 

 vals ; they compose a perfect minor chord. After a 

 pause of a second or two the bird supplements the minor 

 with the major form a third lower, thus: 



* The Hermit, on the contrary, sustains his first note and follows 

 it with a series of rapid and brilliant ones. 



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