164 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
Tawny Turvusu. — Contin. 
come before the public, I shall expect to hear people 
generally say, as they look at them, ‘Why! is that all!’ 
etc.,etc. The song of the Wilson thrush is an illustration 
of what I mean. It is very short, but nothing can exceed 
its bewitching beauty. It is all on the swing and jingle:” 
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Letter from S. P. C. to Franklin Fairbanks, Esq., dated Jan. 3, 1886. 
Hermit Thrush. (See p. 59.) 
Mr. Nelson, in a careful comparison of the singing of 
this thrush with that of the wood thrush and of the veery, 
makes it stand out very distinctly. With his accustomed 
accuracy, he mentions the abrupt change of key. (Jn his 
Bird-songs about Worcester, p. 111.) 
Mr. Burroughs describes the hermit’s song as higher in 
key, “more wild and ethereal,” than that of the wood 
thrush. “His instrument is a silver horn, which he 
winds in the most solitary places. The song of the wood 
thrush is more golden and leisurely. Its tone comes near 
to that of some rare stringed instrument.” But finer than 
all, the hermit’s song is to him “the voice of that calm, 
sweet solemnity one attains to in his best moments. It 
realizes a peace and a deep solemn joy that only the 
finest souls may know.” (Jn his Wake-robin, pp. 33, 60.) 
As Samuels heard the song of this thrush it was so 
similar to that of the wood thrush that for a long time 
he supposed it to be the wood thrush that was singing. 
Not so Nuttall: — 
