FAMILY Turdidsc. 



This is completely beyond the ability of the Nightingale; 

 it is a theme worthy of elaboration at the hands of a 

 master musician; but the Hermit does his own elabora- 

 ting as my succeeding notations will show. 



If there are those who suppose that the Veery is the only 

 bird which sings late in the evening they are greatly mis- 

 taken, for here is a set of records taken from two Hermits 

 which sang at ten minutes of eight on June 29, 1903, in a 

 pasture directly behind my house in Campton, N. H. 



M?S&6*re beautiful* them'ts. 

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