WOOD THRUSH. 
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till 
0 by ornitlioloffists, in iijeneral, the little thrush, 
^ .K'* " e have several thrushes larger, aud a number 
therefore, not alto- 
or soon after, and returns to the south about 
"'•ginui 
'***'son seems to make less ditf'erencc in the times 
.“‘:''>vat of our birds of passage than is generally 
lo fbe tvoods are often in con- 
ggi] • J Urdus rumor ap]iears 
“I'ei suitable appellation : tlie present name has 
hjiv' I t'pted from Mr William Bartrani, « ho seems to 
taij “®*^u the first and almost only naturalist who has 
notice of the merits of this bird, 
of street and solitary songster inhabits the whole 
Of Americji, from lludaon’s Bay to the peninsula 
Of A*'*'^*'^*- He arrives in Pennsylvania about the 20th 
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forwardness, and scarce a .summer bird to be 
^*t't,l ®thcr band, vegetation is sometimes no 
advanced on the 20th of April, at which time 
in-e*^! this present yt^ar, 1807) numbers of wood thrushes 
avaf' *'" bitting through the moist woody hollov^'S ; and 
OVof I y the rnotacilla genus chattering from almost 
tlie^j with scarce an expanded leaf to coimeal 
arei^' whatever time the wood thrush may 
^'tli*' soon announces his presence in the woods, 
to the dawn of the succeeding' morning, mounting 
some tall tree that rises from a low thick 
au(j b l)art of the woods, he pipes his few, but clear 
8yu|tV"*ieal notes, in a kind of ecstasy ; the prelude, or 
toi,J . uy to which, strongly res(mibles the double- 
of ^ "'S of a German flute, and sometimes the tinkling 
“^J^all bell ; the u hole song consists of live or six 
to ly.’ tuo last note of each of which is in such a tone as 
is fi„^'[® tile conclusion evidently suspended ; the finale 
Sootfi* ^ Managed, and with such chaiining eli'ect as to 
40(1 n ta'anquillize the mind, aud to seem sweeter 
*on»Rt ®uower at each successive reiietition. Rival 
of the same species, challenge each other 
Soft^j, ‘uerent parts of the wood, seeming to vie for 
huj.jji ®ues and more exquisite response.s. During the 
“o heat of the day, they are comparatively mute ; 
