HERMIT THRUSH. 



In a letter recently received from Prof. Theodore Clark 

 Smith, now of Williams College, Mass., he gives me a musi- 

 cal sketch of a rather long song of the Olive-back show- 

 ing a series of ascending note-groups not unlike my 

 notation above. 



Vivace 



"Prof.T.C. Smith's notation. 



This goes to prove that two observers have practi- 

 cally arrived at the same conclusion, after having 

 studied the Thrush in widely separated localities for 

 Prof. Smith's notation was taken scores of miles away 

 from Arlington Heights. I know of no other exist- 

 ing records of the Olive-back's music, and there are 

 few descriptions of it in print. Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., of 

 New York, writes, " The effect of the beautiful song is 

 much enhanced by the evening hush in which it is most 

 often heard. It lacks the leisurely sweetness of the 

 Hermit Thrush's outpourings, nor is there pause, but in 

 a lower key and with greater energy it bubbles on 

 rapidly to a close rather than fading out with the soft 

 melody of its renowned rival." 



Hermit Thrush The Hermit Thrush, from a musical 

 Hylodchla fat of vi ^ certainly tne Nightingale 



guttata pallasii * 



L. 7. 1 5 inches ' America; there is no other woodland 

 April isth singer who is his equal. His coloring is 

 not particularly bright ; on the contrary, it is rather 

 more subdued than the quiet brown tones of the Wood 

 Thrush. Upper parts olive-brown (sometimes more of a 

 cinnamon brown) merging into a decided light red- 

 brown on the tail; the spots wedge-shaped at tips of 



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