46 BIRD-SONGS ABOUT WORCESTER. 



or song-thrush (turdus imistelinus) and the 

 Wilson's thrush, or veery (turdus fi:sces- 

 cens], the most beautiful singers to be 

 found in this vicinity. The wood-thrush 

 may always be heard at this season in 

 the early morning and evening, and in 

 cloudy weather through the day, in Paine's 

 Woods, in the neighborhood of the hermit- 

 age, while the veery is to be heard higher 

 up on Millstone Hill, near the quarries. 

 Both birds sing in the thick woods south 

 of Hope Cemetery, and I often hear the 

 wood-thrush in the woods west of Adams 

 Square. The wood-thrush will continue 

 singing nearly into August, but the veeries 

 will become songless by the first of July. 

 The song of the wood-thrush it is almost 

 impossible to represent in words, but it is 

 hard to mistake the bell-like purity of its 

 voice, which cannot be confounded with 

 the song of any other bird. In elaborate 

 technique and delicious portamento it sur- 

 passes all the other thrushes. A pecu- 

 liarly liquid air-o-ee is very beautiful, and 

 a silvery jingle is often interspersed, so 



