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The sounds “лой, woit' are often distinctly heard in the song, and these are especially uttered 
very powerfully and with wonderful harmony. АП our present ornithologists praise the song of 
the Veery. Prof. R. Ridgway, who heard it in the mountains of the West, describes it as really 
inspiring, the song consisting of an inexpressibly delicate metallic utterance of the syllables 
ta-weel'ah, ta-weel'ah, twilah, twil'ah, accompanied by a fine tril which rendered it truly 
seductive." 
The following note is taken from Mr. E. P. Bicknell's paper on the * Singing of Birds” (Auk, 
i. p. 129) :— 
“ Contrary to what we find to be true of most of our summer birds, Wilson's Thrush seems 
often to remain silent for some days after its arrival in the spring; although this is not invariably 
the case. Though it comes to us but little later than the Wood-Thrush, its song in some years 
may not be heard until two weeks after that of the latter bird ; and yet we lose it fully a month 
earlier. With Wilson's Thrush singing continues regularly through the month of June and into 
the early part of July, but after this time is not commonly heard, and soon has entirely ceased. 
For several years dates of final songs have been entered in my books between July 10 and 15; 
though a single song may sometimes be heard later in the month. July 21, 22, and 26 are the 
latest dates that I have recorded. Often in the first, or even the second week of J uly, though 
singing is so soon to cease, the vocal impulse seems to be at its height, and our thick swamps and 
low woods sound with the continually reiterated songs of numbers of these fine-voiced Thrushes. 
These birds are so much oftener heard than seen that after they have become silent they are not 
‚ often observed ; but not until the end of September have they all left us. 
* By the end of August the plumage has been renewed and the birds are very fat. But 
specimens may be taken at this time, and, indeed, through September, showing a slight activity of 
feather-growth." 
The following descriptions are taken from specimens in the British Museum :— 
Adult male. General colour above rufous or tawny-brown, the head like the back, and the 
rump and upper tail-coverts also rufescent like the rest of the back ; wing-coverts like the back, 
the quills light dusky-brown, externally like the back, or slightly paler on the edges of the 
primaries; tail dusky-brown, washed with reddish-brown, so that it is almost exactly of the same 
tint as the back; lores and feathers in front of and round the eye ashy-whitish ; ear-coverts light 
dusky-brown, with а tinge of rufous, and faint shaft-streaks of ashy-fulvous; cheeks and entire 
throat pale tawny-buff, whiter towards the chin, which is unspotted; on the lower throat and 
fore-neck some small triangular spots of dusky-brown; the cheeks separated from the throat by a 
moustachial stripe of dusky-brown spots; remainder of under surface of body white from the fore- 
neck downwards, and including the under tail-coverts; the sides of the body clear dusky-grey, with 
a few indistinct spots of the same colour. Total length 6:8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 5:8, tail 9-75, 
tarsus 1:1. 
Adult female. Similar to the male. "Total length 7 inches. 
Old birds after their autumn moult are scarcely to be distinguished from their spring plumage, 
but may be a little more tawny-buff on the throat and have a slight shade of the same colour on 
the sides of the body. The females generally, but not invariably, show the spots on the throat less 
distinctly marked. 
When the plumage becomes worn in the breeding-season, the russet-tint of the upper surface 
disappears to a great extent, and the bird becomes browner. It then becomes very difficult to 
distinguish T'urdus fuscescens from the race which Mr. Ridgway has named 7. salicicola. 
Young birds after their first moult may be distinguished by the very distinct tawny spots on 
the ends of the median and greater wing-coverts, and these are often pronounced in specimens 
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