HERMIT THRUSH. 
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destitute of tlie clear voice and musical 
of that charming minstrel. It also differs, in 
in the .southern States during the whole 
ii) whereas tlie u ood thrush does not winter even 
oftl '’"'‘^5 nor arrives within the southern boundary 
.j,0‘t State until some time in April, 
llljj ® hermit thrush is rarely seen in Pennsylvania, 
loti!®* /"’■ a *®w weeks in spring, and late in the tall, 
^’OOr the wood tlirusli has left us, and when 
®®v a summer bird remains in the woods. In both 
*1UC' p* lonte, having only, in spring, an occasional 
'*.> like that of a young- stray chicken. Along the 
latu ®hc '0 New Jersey, they remain longer and 
la .L I have observed them there late in November, 
ffg "* eane swamps of the tliactaw nation, they were 
OXit 'o the month of May, on tlie 12th of which I 
itlj ''***)ed one of their nests on a horizontal branch, 
*0(1 oi'er the path. The female was sitting, 
hiid h- with great reluctance, so that I had nearly 
tijjj,**'y hand on her before she flew. The nest was 
Coo . ®'' the upper part of the body of the branch, and 
!'*®l'®d with great neatness ; hut without mud or 
Tl,y isoutrary to the custom of the wood thrush. 
Of (, '“'•tside was composed of a considerable (juautity 
looty grass, intermixed with horse hair, and 
^««tlv'! ith a fine, green coloured, tlircad-like grass, per- 
^’^”1 circularly, with particular neatness. The 
Speep'!**^® four, of a pale greenish bine, marked with 
®0d ** blotches of olive, particularly at the great 
Cui^l I ®lso observed this bird on the banks of the 
Icf^j ’*®hHid river in April. Its food consists chiefly of 
hin.j ’ which these low swamps furnish a nernetual 
abi 
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■nice. 
perpetual 
“Osh as those of the holly, myrtle, gall 
“tliftf^ opecies of vaccinium,) yapon shrub, and many 
dii^ *‘^‘fl®rficial observer would instantly pronounce 
takii,,!. o variety of the wood thrush ; but, 
“‘to consideration its difference of size, colour, 
song, seclud(!d habits, dilferently 
o Rest, and spotted eggs, all unlike those of the 
