130 THRUSHES 



the Screech Owl should he leave his retreat before diurnal 

 birds have gone to bed. 



The nest is usually built in small trees about 8 feet from 

 the ground. The 3-5 greenish blue eggs are laid in May. 

 There is a second brood in June. 



VEERY 

 Eylocichla fusccscens fuscescens. Case 6, Fig. 73 



Upperparts, including tail, uniform cinnamon-brown, breast 

 bufi with indistinct brownish spots; sides white. L. 7}. 



Range. Nests from northern New Jersey and northern Illinois 

 into Canada and south in the Alleghanies to Georgia; winters in 

 the tropics. A closely related western form, the Willow Thrush 

 {H. f. salicicola) nests in Minnesota and westward, and migrates 

 through the Mississippi Valley. To the field naturalist it is 

 essentially the Veery. 



Washington, common T. V., Apl. 26-June 3. Aug. 18-Sept. 35. 

 Ossining, common S. R., Apl. 29-Sept. 5. Cambridge, locally 

 abundant S. R., May 8-Sept. 5. N. Ohio, common S. R., Apl. 20- 

 Oct. 1. Glen Ellyn, tolerably common T. V., Apl. 34-May so; 

 Aug. 26-Sep t . 3 ; SB. Minn., common S. R. May 5 . 



Low, wet woods with considerable undergrowth, where 

 skunk cabbage and hellebore flourish are the home of the 

 Veery. Here he winds his mysterious double-toned spiral 

 song, and here, on the ground, hidden beneath the rank 

 vegetation, he builds his nest. The eggs, laid late in May, 

 resemble those of the Wood Thrush. The Veery's common 

 call is a clearly whistled whei-you, quite unlike the quirt or 

 pit-pit of the Wood Thrush. Except in mountainous 

 regions and some local 'stations,' the Wood Thrush and 

 Veery are the only Thrushes which nest in the eastern 

 United States south of Massachusetts. 



GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH 



Eylocichla alicia alicia. Case 8. Fig. 8a 



Upperparts uniform olive; eye-ring whitish, not buffy as in the 

 Olive-backed Thrush (Case 8, Fig. 81); sides of throat and 

 breast less buffy than in the Olive-back. L. 7}. 



