NATURE STUDY 
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences 
Voi,. II. August, 1901 . No. 3 . 
More Bird Notes. 
BY FREDERICK W. BATCHELDER. 
In my last article I expressed regret at not having heard 
the song of the Hermit Thrush this season. On July 12, 
at the top of the southeastern Uncanoonuc, I had the pleas¬ 
ure of listening to the songs of several of these thrushes 
during a whole afternoon. It was a perfect summer day. 
The light breeze just stirred the leaves and kept the air 
fresh. The mountain and its inhabitants, and its visitants, 
too, were in a state of tranquil happiness, a state most ex¬ 
quisitely voiced by the strains of these superb singers. 
There was a large colony of them to the southward of the 
tower amongst the tangle of underbrush and dead tree 
trunks. We tried to get near enough to the singers to see 
them, but in vain. The crackling of dry leaves and twigs 
beneath our feet gave too faithful warning, and the birds 
were always in the next tree beyond the one in sight. Nev¬ 
ertheless, from previous observations we knew that our sing¬ 
ers were Hermit Thrushes, and that was enough. 
On attempting to transcribe the song of one of the best 
singers among them I found that my recollection of the 
