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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



AUeghanian zone, practically absent from the spruce and balsam forests 

 of the Catskills and Adirondacks where it is displaced by the Olive-backed 

 and Bicknell thrushes. It arrives from the south from the 26th of April 

 to the 1 2th of May, slightly later in the northern counties, and in the fall 



Photo b\- L. S. Horton 



Wilson thrush's nest and eggs 



usually disappears between the 5th and the 30th of September, rarely 



later than the 15th. 



Haunts and habits. The Veery or Wilson thrush prefers a damper, 

 swampier forest than the Wood thrush and is usually very common in 

 those forests which are flooded early in the season, and in May and June 



