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Woop Turusu. — Contin. 
small bell, and seems to leave the conclusion suspended. Each part of its 
song seems sweeter and richer than the preceding.” — Baird, Brewer, and 
Ridgway: North American Birds, Land-Birds, vol. i p. 9. 
“The prelude to this song resembles almost the double-tonguing of the 
flute, blended with a tinkling, shrill, and solemn warble, which re-echoes 
from his solitary retreat like the dirge of some sad recluse, who shuns the 
busy haunts of life. The whole air consists usually of four parts, or bars, 
which succeed in deliberate time, and finally blend together in impressive 
and soothing harmony, becoming more mellow and sweet at every repeti- 
tion.” — Nuttall, T.: Manual of Ornithology, p. 391. 
See Our Birds. (New Eng. Mayg., vol. i., 1881, pp. 330-331.) 
Big-tree Thrush. 
Mr. L. Belding, in his paper, “The Small Thrushes of 
California” (Calif. Acad. Sci., Proceedings, 2d ser., vol. ii, 
Oct. 1, 1889, pp. 68, 69), gives the song of the big-tree 
thrush (Turdus sequotensis). 
Compare first two measures of No. 1 with this : — 
Woop TurRusai. 
And first measure of No. 2 with this: — 
Woop TuruvusH. 
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