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metallic than that of the Olive-backed Thrush. On the loth of 

 August I found a Hermit calling to her brood in the undergrowth 

 with a low cluck that was instantly changed to the alarm note 

 when my presence became known. 



On the wooded slopes about Shelburne Harbor the. Hermit 

 Thrush was apparently abundant. In the hush of the long twi- 

 light we would drift far out toward the edge of burnished water, 

 listening to the vesper strains of some late singer that came with 

 infinite sweetness out of the gathering gloom of the farther shore. 



Auk, XXI, Jan., 1904, p. 5"5'"-6^- 



