Olive-backed Thrush 31 



There is a pause, the shadows grow deeper and the song is 

 repeated. Darker and darker grows the wood, the green 

 leaves turn to black solid masses, the great trees are but faintly 

 outlined against the sky; the Voice becomes silent and the bird 

 of plain plumage and gentle mien tucks its head under its wing 

 and falls asleep, guarded by the Creator with as much care, 

 1 venture to say, as man with all his works. 



Everything about Wood Thrush is attractive. His graceful 

 shape, noble breast, and retiring manner invite the love and 

 admiration of the beholder. 



The nest is a homely but comfortable structure of dry leaves 

 and grass stuck together with mud, and is placed in the fork 

 of a tree, on a limb, or in a cluster of shrubbery, from five 

 to ten feet from the ground, generally in close woods. The 

 eggs are sky-blue, unspotted, and closely resemble those of 

 the Robin. Wood Thrush is the rarest of the three members 

 of his family which breed in Albany County. 



Olive-backed Thrush; Swainson's Thrush. — 

 Hylocichla ustulata sTvainsonii. 7. 1 6 



Gray-cheeked Thrush. — Hylockhla alida. 7.58 



Bicknell's Thrush. — H^lodchla alkia bicknellL 

 6.25-7.25 



So far as I have been able to learn, these three Thrushes are 

 never seen in Albany County save as Spring or Fall migrants, 

 though it seems quite probable that the Olive-backed may 



