Turdus fiisoescens . 



Concord, Fiass. A fjine singer. 



189S. Even the Wilson's Thrushes were nearly silent this evening, 



June 4. Last night they sang very freely and finely in the rain. 



(The rain stopped at siinset to-day and the sicy cleared in the 

 N.W. but the strong K.E. wind still holds). Like the Hermit 

 Thrushes they vary greatly in individual proficiency. One 

 that I listened to last evening had an exceptionally clear, 

 pure voice and his execution was without a flaw. I have never 

 heard a better singer, 



June 21. Without question the ?/ilson's Thrushes furnish the finest 



as well as the most copious nusic of any of the birds which 

 breed in this inimediate region. As twilight was falling this 

 evening they made the woods fairly ring with their clear, 

 flute-like voices. They are almost as numerous in the pine 

 -woods on the tops and sides of the hills as in the swaraps. 

 There is less inequality and variability in the songs of 

 different individuals than is the case with the Hermit arid 

 ?/ood Thrushes iiut yet there are some birds whose voices are 

 finer and clearer and whose notes are more varied and intri- 

 cate than those of the coimaon run. 



I do not remember to have- noted before that the Wilson's 

 Thrush, like so many other birds, has favorite singing perches 



to which it resorts day after day. This, at least, is true 

 of a bird which is breeding somewhere near the east end of 



