1 
1874. 
Turdus palIasi. 
?fiddlGS 0 X County, ^'ass. 
(Oct.17j 
Numbers in the Warren Run, Walt am. The were un¬ 
usually active and noisy, uttering, in addition tto the 
usual cluck, a plaintive vrhee-v/heeD v/hich T n r»vnr hoarH 
before at this season. 
" 18 
Several hoppiiig about under the pear trees in otir 
garden. One of the uttered a note v/hieh T at once recog¬ 
nized as identical Ycith the cry that I h ve often heard 
at night in Maine and over Fresh Pond before daylight of 
a frosty morning. 
1875. 
Apr. 17. 
A flock of about a dozen among willov/ stubs at the 
foot of Vassal Tane. 
Oct. 14. 
As £ was watching for Ducks this evening, on tbe 
shore of the trout-pond in “Fairyland", Concord, a Her¬ 
mit Tjirush sitting on an alder near me uttered the peculi¬ 
ar night call of the species in a low tone, he was in¬ 
stantly ansvcerod by others all round the shores of the 
pond. 
Nov. 3. 
Abundant in W'atortovm. 
CO 
r-i 
Several (Belmont ) . 
1876. 
Oct. 14. 
General arrival (Concord). 
1879. 
Oct„ 14 
Abundant everyvAaore this morning at Concord In 
several places I saw little parties of three orf four 
which flew up from the ground as my setter rattled through 
-0 bushes. These Thrushes seem very fond o^" birch 
openins s at this season, and in hunting Woodcock I inva'^'-i- 
sbly see numbers of them. 
Oct. 15. 
The migration is now at its height (Concord). 
1880, 
Oct. 7. 
Abundant in birches (Concord). 
“ 12. 
Svrarming in birches (Concord). 
1B81, 
Oct. 7. 
Tv/o (Concord). 
“ 12. 
Exceedingly numerous to-day; some were found among 
barbary bushes along stone-vails. But the greater 
numbers in second grou'th oaks and birches. They utter¬ 
ed bhe usual cluck and a fine ze^e-e-o;-^ common to all 
the members of the genus. 
