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The Veery i did not think of, even as a possibility, for it is the 
least common of the Thrushes which breed about Lake Umbagog and I 
have hitherto had no reason to suspect that it ever occurs there 
numerously in autumn.as a migrant from regions still further north. 
That this must be the case, however, vail appear from what I am 
about to add concerning the experience referred to in the opening 
sentences of this entry in my journal. 
\\m 1 Identified as- that.... aft-.. the Vee-rv . 
The two birds heard, early this morning, in the oaks near 
the cabin called almost incessantly for ten or twelve minutes, 
giving practically every variation known to me of the sounds 
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which I have just described at such length. As the light increased 
I noticed that their voices were changing gradually and beginning 
to resemble those of Wilson's Thrushes. At length one of them ut¬ 
tered an unmistakeable call of that species - the ordinary pheu , 
so like the sound of a man whistling to his dog, as Burrough puts 
it. This was soon followed, on the part of both birds, by other 
notes equally characteristic of the Veery, among them the low vi- 
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brating or jarring cry. Thus the solution of a mystery that has 
puzzled me for many years has at length been vouchsafed me. 
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The birds A on this occasion became silent before it was 
broad daylight. I think they were migrants that had arrived and 
settled among the oaks just' before I awoke. That they made all 
