CHAPTER XV. 
THRUSHES . 
“ QjOME of the sweetest notes that we heard in 
^ the woods,” said Miss Harson one evening, 
“ came from the thrushes, of which there are several 
kinds. The brown thrush, or thrasher (Fig. 12), as 
he is often called, 
is the largest of 
them all, and is a 
very sweet singer. 
He is of a bright 
reddish-brown, the 
wings crossed with 
two bars of white, 
relieved with black. 
The lower parts are 
yellowish -white, 
while the breast 
and sides under the 
Fig. 12. — Brown Thrush . 
wings are beauti- 
fully marked with long, pointed spots of black in 
chains. This bird is over eleven inches in length, 
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