TAWNY THRUSH 



(Veery) 



May ig, 1893 

 May i j, i8q5 

 May 16, 1896 



THE first acquaintance I had with this 

 thrush was in White Birch. It was 

 singing softly to itself, in a twittering sort 

 of way. I did not see it that day, but Mrs. 

 Hubbard, who was with me, told me it 

 was the Wilson's thrush.* Afterwards 

 I saw the bird under an evergreen in our 

 yard at Wheaton. 



May 11, 1895. I had a fine study of the 

 veery in White Birch. The bird hopped 

 about on the road not ten feet from us, 

 and stayed there as long as Edith Skeele 

 and I wanted to look at it. It is so much 

 more delicately colored than any of the 

 other thrushes — the back and tail a light 

 fulvous brown, the throat without spots, 

 and the spots on the breast very faint. The 

 markings about the eye and down from 

 the bill are also exceedingly faint, not dark 

 as in the olive-back and Hermit. The 

 upper breast has a wash of decidedly 



* See grey-cheeked thrush. 

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