Bird* cf -WeeteTB North Carolina. 

 Wiiiiam Brewster. 



lOo. Turdus fuscescens. Wilson's Thrush. — Abundant over the 

 elevated plateau about Highlands, and scarcely less numerous on the Black 

 Mountains, ranging in both localities from about 3500 to 5000 feet. Like 

 the Wood Thrush this species haunted, by preference, rhododendron thick- 

 ets along streams, and in many of these tangled retreats it was far more 

 numerous than I have ever seen it at the North. Its call-notes were 

 louder, sharper, and more penetrating than those of our New England 

 bird. The song, also, was clearer, more varied, and altogether finer. 



On the Black Mountains Wilson's Thrushes abounded in the dense 

 evergreen forest of spruces and balsams at, and for a little distance above, 

 5000 feet. Two specimens which I shot here are somewhat larger than 

 New England examples, and decidedly browner. Mr. Boynton has re- 

 peatedly found the nest of this species at Highlands, usually in the top 

 of a fallen tree, sometimes on a mound surrounded by water or springy 

 ground. 



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For Turdus fuscescens^ size and color are indicated in Tawny 

 Thrush, Little Thrush (Latham), and Merle grivette (Canada 

 — literally "Little-Thrush-Blackbird"); Wilson's Thrush dis- 

 closes its first adequate biographer ; Veery (New England) and 

 Yorrick (Thoreau's Writings) refer to its pleasing note, which 

 they copy. Bu^ N.O.O. S.Apil. 1888, p. 7 3 . 



