BICKNELL'S THRUSH. 



than its final ascent of the scale, that is unique! The call 

 notes of this mountain Thrush are like those of the Veery 

 but in most instances nearly an octave higher. 



/ *.,/ STimes. 8*. 



Legato v^^^^ ^ vww 



Whieu, Wfiieu, Whieu., Whfeu Whieu 



Call notes. 



Bicknell's Thrush is by no means an uncommon bird, at 

 least at an elevation of three thousand feet. On the crest 

 of Cannon Mountain and among the clwarf spruces on the 

 shoulders of Mt. Lafayette in the Franconia Notch, he is 

 always in evidence along with the Olive-backed Thrush in 

 June and early July; but the latter bird nests rather lower 

 down in more sheltered spots. I have heard several times 

 the songs of both these Thrushes simultaneously, notably 

 on the occasion of a visit with some lady friends to the 

 charming wilderness camp of the late William C. Prime at 

 Lonesome Lake on the southern slope of Cannon Mountain. 

 Here, indeed, is the "Lodge in some vast wilderness" for 

 which the poet Cowper yearned, here is the home of the 

 mountain Thrush who flutes his weird and silvery threnody 

 to the dying day! This is the like of the Mountain Tarn 

 but margined with American Labrador Tea and moun- 

 tain Vacciniums of which Frederick Faber wrote: 



There is a power to bless 

 In hillside loneliness, 



In tarns and dreary places; 

 A virtue in the brook, 

 A freshness in the look 



Of mountains' joyless faces. 



Bradford Torrey renders the song of this Thrush in syl- 

 lables which are not difficult for me to fit to the records I 

 made at Lonesome Lake. His form wee-o at the end, 

 however, might prove misleading, for the Thrush rises on 

 the musical scale at precisely that finale, and Mr. Torrey 

 uses the same syllables for the first part of the song where 

 the bird's voice falls; hence it would have been wiser to 



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