Turdus a. 'oallasii . 

 Peterborough, New HampsMre. 



1393. 



July 5 



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If the Hermit Thrushes of this region suffered serious 

 losses in the South during the terrible winter of a few 

 ieis ago (their maabGrs have been since materially diminished 

 in most parts of Kew England ) they must have recovered very 

 rapidly for I have never seen them more abuixdant than they 

 have been here this season. During July they were singing 

 almost everyv;here and in white pine -woods and old pastures 

 growing \xp to pines and spruces one might oiTten hear tv70 or 

 three - axid sometimes even foiir - males at once. They were 

 in full song up to and including August 2nd when they ceased 

 v^ry abruptly and generally although I heard a bird singing 

 continuously on the evening of August 6th and another at the 

 same hour on the following evening. During July they sang 

 more or less freely through the day -when the weather was 

 cloudy or cool, but when it was clear and warm they were or- 

 dinarily silent except 14 the early morning and at evening. 



I noticed that aj evening, after finishing singing, they 

 regularly called to one another for several minutes before 

 going to sleep, using chiefly the low, whining, canary-like 

 ^-e.-e.-e. but also giving, iiot infrequently, the clear, v/hist- 

 Itng note which they use when migrating at night. 



