I Thrash, April 14. 



Ii*irefc Arrivals.C. O. Traoy. Taftsville, Vt, 

 O.&O. VlIl.S6jJt.l883.p 7/ 



Wood Thrusli . [lIiMi'-lil" nn,Mii,n,] two birds l>laylOUi 

 1 0.& O. X. Jan. 1885. p. 10- 



Summer Bds.Mt. Manaf ield, Vt. 



Hylocichla" muste'lina. Wood Thrush. — In 1899, I heard" the 



song and alarm note of this species several times, in the damp maple 

 woods at the base. Once I saw the bird near enough to recognize it, but 

 did not secure it. I think there were at least two pairs nesting there that 

 year, but in 1900 I could find no trace of them, nor have thej been 

 observed in Stowe Valley by Mrs. Straw, so they are probably irregular 

 in their occurrence there. i 



iThat their occurrence in northern Vermont is not unusual is evidenced by 

 a record from Willoughby Lake, by F. H. Allen (St. Johnsbury, ' Caledonian,' 

 Sept. II, 1896; quoted by Faxon and Hoffman in 'Birds of Berkshire Co., 

 Mass.,' p. 10). 



arthur H. Howell. Aufc. XVIII. Oct., 1901, p.845. 



^ The Wood Thrush in Newbury, Vermont. — Newbury, Orange 

 County, Vermont, is on the west bank of the Connecticut River, Newbury 

 village being about 5 miles south of Wells River, which also is a part of the 

 town of Newbury. From the meadows along the river, the land rises to a 

 high bluff on which the village is situated, then still higher to the top of Mt. 

 Pulaski, which IS nearly a thousand feet above the sea. The house where 

 I am spending the summer is among a growth of tall pines, spruces, oaks 

 bu'ches, etc., at the foot of Pulaski slope. Before 7 a. m. July 4, 1910 

 many birds were singing about the house, among them the Hermit and 

 Wilson s Thrush and White-throated Sparrow, when to my surprise I 

 heard the Wood Thrush, which I had never heard in Vermont before. 

 He sang four times; a day or so later, I saw a Wood Thrush.— Anna E 

 Cobb, Providence, R. I. ^ aT.Oof 1«0 0. i/6A 



Wood Thrush at Newbury , Vt.— I have spent my summers since 

 1906, from June to October, in the town of Newbury, Vt,, on the Con- 

 necticut River, five miles south of Wells River, and twenty summers 

 previous at Lake Willoughby, Vt. Before 1910 I had never identified a 

 Wood Thrush at Newbury, though the Wilson and Hermit Thrushes were 

 quite common. During the summer of 1910 two Wood Thrushes were 

 identified in the same part of the town where the other thrushes were found. 



This year, 1911, there is a noticeable increase of Wood Thrushes. I 

 have seen them in both localities and should say they were from 6 to 8 

 birds singing where last year only two were identified. 



In the late afternoon, of July 1 there was a fine concert by the Wood, 

 Wilson, and Hermit Thrushes in one locality, with a specially fine per- 

 formance by the Wood Thrush- — Anna E. Cobb, Newbury, Vl. 



