Turdus fuseeseens. 
Middles ox Count 3 ^, f'ass. 
1866. 
Juno lo Nest with four of^gs. 
1867. 
May 24. 
Found a finishod nost. 
1868. 
May 7., 
I have hoard nono sing as yot, althouf^h I have boon 
in thoir haunts early and lato. 
“ 9. 
A male singing at daybroak. 
July 10.' 
j.he males still sing froelyeiron in the Jiottest p 3 ,rt 
of tho day. 
1870. 
May 18.: 
Tv^o QNowton). 
Juno 1. 
Nest on a lov/ briary branch,, va th throe fresh oc^gs. 
Sopt.12. 
One, tho last. 
1871. 
Sept.18. 
Shot one. 
Oc fc . 14. 
Ono shot in the ’^rosh Pond sv/’arnp (Atkinson). 
1874. 
May 15. 
Abundant in tho pine sv/amp but as usual on thoir 
first arrival silent but with the exception of the call 
notes. 
June 2. 
As tho sun ’vent dov/r\ tho males were singing in aUl 
directions in tho vroods. After it had become nearly’^' 
aarK their songs ceased and they flew restlessly about 
over the trees uttering their querulous queo. Thev 
seemed quite at homo in the darkness. 
“ 8. 
Walking quietly along the edge of a little meadow 
encircled by v/oods my attention v;as attracted bv a f-o- 
ble scolding note very like the chatter of a House Wron 
The sound proceeded from a cluster of raspberry bushes 
on the edge of the woods, approaching which -I suddenlv 
found myself within a yard of a ’'bison’s Thrush which 
v/as acting in a singular mapner, hopping backvrard and 
forv/ard between tv^o tv/igs, its wings and tail dropping 
and expanded, its bill open and panting, its got\eral ex¬ 
pression feeble and dispirited. As I watched it momen¬ 
tarily grev; weaker, its hops becoming shorter, its chat¬ 
ter fainter; at length it began to totter on its p^rch 
and once or twice nearly foil. I now advanced a step and 
was about to ^ seize it vrhen, seeming to notice me for the 
first time, it flev/- to a branch some twenty yards off 
gave Its plumage a vigorous shako, and, with a nheu ex- 
pressive apparently of intense relief, flew again and 
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