This consideration ruled out Swalneon*s Thrush, also, 
Veery X did not think of even as a possibility, for it is 
the least common of the Thrushes which breed about Lake 
HJL £]&*& OX. Uabagog and I have hitherto had no reason to suspect that 
it ever occurs thus numerously i autumn as a migrant from 
regions still further north. That this muot be the c se, 
however, will appear fron what X am about to add concerning 
the experience referred to in the opening sentences of this 
entry in my Journal. 
The two birds heard early th s 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 which X have Just described at such length. As 
the light increased, I noticed that their voices were 
changing gradually and beginning to resemble those of Wilsa* a 
feu 3 shea. At length one of them uttered anunmistakable 
call of that speoies — the ordinary often , so like the 
s:und of a man whistling to his dog, as Burroughs puts it. 
This was soon followed, on the part of both birds, by other 
notes equally ch-r acteristic of the Veery, among them the 
low vibrating or Jarring cry. Thus the solution of a mystery 
that has pussled me for many year* has at length been 
vouchafed me, % 
The birds heard on this occasion became silent 
before it was broad daylight. 1 think they were migrants 
that had arrived and settle among the oaks Just before I 
awoke. That they made all the sounds which I attributed 
