FAMILY Turdtdee 



But far away, and far away, the Tawny Thrush is 



singing; 

 New England's woods at close of day, with that clear 



chant are ringing; 

 And when my light of life is low, and heart and flesh 



are weary . 

 I fain would hear before I go, the wood-notes of the 



Veery." 



Qr.y.cheeked The Gray-cheeked Thrush is seen only in 

 ThrtMh tne t - me O f migration, and its song from t he 



Hyloctchlaalictte . . , . 



L. 7.60 inches musical point of view still remains unchs- 



May isth covered. That it must be distinctly differ- 



ent from the songs of all the other Thrushes goes without 

 saying, but that there should be a radical difference in ton- 

 ality, pitch, and scale, or in the thrushlike character of the 

 melody, is next to impossible. This Thrush is boreal, and to 

 hear the song one must journey to the evergreen forests of 

 northern Canada and Labrador. Without doubt, in the 

 wildernesses of the far North and nowhere else, the music of 

 this unfamiliar species would reveal something not to be 

 found in any of the other Thrushes' songs the question is. 

 what? During migration, as far as my knowledge goes, the 

 bird does not sing, and the call note, a sharp, nasal cree-a. 

 gives one no clew as to the character of the full song. Bick- 

 nell's Thrush is a sub-species, merely a smaller form of thi^ 

 Thrush, and if the relationship between the two is so very 

 close, then there should be a correspondingly close resem- 

 blance between their songs in some essential particular. 



The upper parts of the Gray-cheeked Thrush are brown- 

 ish olive similar to that of the Olive-backed Thrush, tin 

 eye ring whitish, the region between the eye and the 

 bill grayish, sides of the throat and the breast very slightly 

 tinged with pale buff, the spotting exactly like that of the 

 Olive-Backed Thrush. The nest is built of dry grasses. 

 leaves and shreds of bark lined with finer material. Egg, 

 greenish blue flecked with burnt -sienna brown. 



This species breeds in the Hudsonian zone from Ahisk.-i 

 and the western Yukon territory in the region of th< 

 Mackenzie River to central Ungava, Labrador, and Xe\v- 

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