The Russet-backed Thrushes 
among the Sierra Hermit Thrushes for happy weeks, I never could get up 
any enthusiasm for making the bird a subject of scientific inquiry. I have 
found nests, of course, and left them. Also we may suppose that the birds 
Taken in Fresno County Photo by the Author 
A HAUNT IN THE CENTRAL SIERRAS: ALT. 11.000 
eat something or other. Mischa Elman is said to have a weakness for 
pretzels, and Galli-Curci spends a certain number of hours out of the 
twenty-four in bed—snores, perchance; but it is not by these things that 
Art is remembered or the divinity of Song made glorious. I refuse to 
spy upon the Hermit Thrush, or to prattle of cosmetics and preferences 
in cheese. 
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Russet-backed Thrush 
A. 0 . U. No. 758. Hylocichla ustulata ustulata (Nuttall). 
Synonym. — “Wood Thrush” (name properly restricted to H. mustelina of 
the East). 
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