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only in or near the deep forest. Unfortu- 
nately he will not sing for us. He is 
sometimes called the Swamp Angel. 
Now comes another beautiful songster, 
which we can sometimes hear in the 
dingle toward sunset, and his name is 
the Song Thrush, or Wood Thrush, and 
sometimes the Fife bird, from his clear 
whistling notes. Hissong has from eight 
to ten different strains. After each 
strain a pause of three or four seconds. 
He is often confounded by writers with 
the Hermit Thrush, but his notes, beau- 
tiful as they are, have not the deep, rich, 
sonorous quality that the Hermit alone 
emits. You can distinguish him from 
the other thrushes by the rich, tawny 
color of his back and by his white breast 
sprinkled with brownish spots. 
The Wilson Thrush, or Veery, is rather yy 
small, being a little larger than the blue- 
bird. He could, however, at once, be 
taken for a thrush from his general ap- 
pearance, though his breast is white 
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