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the Albany Country Club late into June, 1907. As its name 

 implies, the Hermit is extremely retiring, preferring well grown 

 woods for an abiding place; still, one will occasionally 

 approach the farmhouse, or even enter the city. A fine male 

 spent the first two weeks of April, 1907, in the rear yard of 

 the house where I have my lodgings on High Street. This 

 yard is directly in the rear of the old home of the Albany 

 Institute and Historical and Art Society. The bird did not 

 mind the presence of the laundress hanging out clothes, but 

 calmly surveyed the scene from the branches of a small peach 

 tree. Hermit spent most of the time on the ground in the fence 

 corners grubbing for worms. He was absolutely silent. One 

 morning while observing the bird from my room with a glass 

 I discovered near him two White-crowned Sparrows feeding 

 on the ground. 



The Hermit's nest is placed on the ground; four greenish- 

 blue eggs are laid. 



Wilson's Thrush; Veery. — H^lockhla fuscescem. 7.50 



Common Summer Resident 



Field marks. — Tawny tinge, often overspreading its entire 

 brown and white plumage; generally stronger on the full 

 throat. 



TTie Veery is the commonest of the Thrush family in this 

 County throughout the Summer, frequenting moist woods, or 

 low swamps where the undergrowth is thick. It can be easily 

 distinguished from the other Thrushes by the yellowish-brown 



