THRUSHES 



(756) Hylocichia fuscescens 



fuscescens {Slephcm) 

 VEERY; WILSON'S THRUSH. 

 Ads — Upper parts uniform, light 

 cinnamon-brown; head or tail neither 

 lighter nor darlcer than the back; be- 

 low whitish, the sides of the throat 

 and the breast being washed with 

 buff and indistinctly spotted (wedge- 

 shaped) with the color of the back. 

 L., 7.50; W., 3.80; T., 2.85; B., .53. 

 Nest — Of strips of bark, rootlets and 

 grasses, on or very close to the 

 ground; three to five greenish-blue 

 eggs, slightly darker than those of the 

 Wood Thrush; of the same size but 

 lighter than those of the Catbird. 



Range — Breeds from Newfound- 

 land, Ont., and Mich, south to N. J., 

 Ohio, and Ind. Winters in northern 

 South America. With us May 10 to 

 Sept. 10. 



WOOD THRUSHES are the largest and perhaps the 

 handsomest of the true thrushes. Easily distinguished from 

 any other by the numerous large round black spots on the 

 breast and by the bright rufous head in contrast to the brown 

 back. Their usual haunts are damp woods, especially those 

 through which a brook winds its way. Most of the thrushes 

 are rather timid and I have never found this species any less 

 so than the others. True, they sometimes appear even in 

 cities and feed on lawns, but in such cases the familiarity is 

 on their part and is quite exceptional. If we try to follow 

 them in their usual haunts they will keep a goodly distance 

 ahead just as though deliberately trying to tantalize us. They 

 are less timid, however, when nesting; that is, the female is, 

 or else she thinks her dried-leaf colors render her invisible, 

 for she will sit quietly on her eggs and let us approach near 

 enough to touch her before she leaves. 



It is as songsters that Wood Thrushes are best known and 

 at daybreak and just before dusk their notes may be heard 



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