WOOD THRUSH. 109 
cannot be observed but on a close examina- 
Th 
"f ])• j*® have paid minute attention to t 
sio ' ■ well, that the voice, cnertfy, and expres- 
diff’ '** same tribe, differ as widely as the voices of 
sin**^*"*' '"dividuals of the human species, or as one 
•nif does from another. The powers of songf, in some 
j(jj’'’*duals of the wood thrush, have often surprised 
delighted me. Of these I remember 
I the sing-inff- 
one, many 
“go, whose notes 1 could instantly recognise on 
^^6nng the wood.s, and with whom 1 had been, as it 
“cquainted from his first arrival. The top of a 
jJ’® white oak that overhung part of the glen, W'as 
th * *y the favourite pinnacle from whence he poured 
till *’^ ®®test melody ; to which 1 had frequently listened 
flip .*''^**^ began to gather in the woods, and the fire- 
pat) sparkle among the briinches. But, alas! in the 
®*tic language of the poet — 
One morn I miss’d him on the accustom’d hill. 
Along tlio vale, and on his favourite tree — 
Another c.ame, nor yet beside the rill, 
^ Nor up the glen, nor in the wood was he. 
“Stewards, passing along the edge of the 
featk ^ It'uud fragments of the wings and broken 
Pq of a wood thrush killed by the hawk, w hich I 
'®*hplated with tiiifeigned regret, and not without a 
j ®''niination to retiiliate on the first of these murderers 
®®!<ld meet with. 
llii ^ seem singular in my estimation of 
(jj j.“wd, 1 shall subjoin an extract of a letter from a 
'’’guished American gentleman to whom I had sent 
gjy ®. drawings, and w hose name, were I at hherty to 
4 ji(j Would do honour to my humble performance, 
iro_®®®der any farther observations on the subject 
II unnecessary. 
Worth ''*^® e'**’*0'*® birds, there is one w-ell 
Pvp your attention, to be found, or rather beard, in 
spp^y part of America, and yet scarcely ever to be 
Du ■ It is in all the forests from spring to fall, and 
►®*’ lint on the tops of the tallest trees, from which it 
