Identifier: birdcraftfield00wrig (find matches)
Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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wellas the greater slimness of the Olive-back. Mr. Nehrling says that this Thrush, in company with theVeery and Wood Thrush, is killed in great hordes, by themiserable pot-hunters about New Orleans, on its return inthe fall migration; so that even sober plumage is no protec-tion, and the fact that our country is not wholly birdlessgoes far to prove the wonderful power that Nature uses inher struggle with the destructive side of man. Hermit Thrush: Turdus aonalaschhce pallasiu Plate 8. Fig. 1. Length: 7-7.25 inches. Male and Female: Above olive-brown, reddening on the rump. Yel-lowish eye ring. Throat, sides of neck, and breast washed withbuff and thickly sprinkled with brown arrowheads growinglarger on belly. Under parts white. Bill blackish above, lowermandible light; feet hght brown. ^ongr: Flute-like, ascending. 0 spheral, spheral! O holy, holy ! Oclear away, clear away ! 0 clear up, clear up ! (Burroughs.) Season: Comes in the migrations before other northern Thrushes. 62 PLATE 8.
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1. HEKMIT THRUSH.Length, 7-7.25 inches. 2. GOLDEX-CROWNED KINGLET.Length, 4 inches. SONG-BIRDS. Thrushes Breeds: From mountainous parts of southern New York and New England northward.Nest and Eggs: Similar to those of the Veery.Range: Eastern North America, wintering from the Northern States southward. Burroughs says: If we take the quality of melody as atest, the Wood Thrush, the Hermit Thrush, and the VeeryThrush stand at the head of our list of songsters. One maybe very familiar with the songs of two of this trio withoutever having identified the third, or at least without havingheard it sing. At the first glance the Hermit closely resembles the WoodThrush, but a good field-glass will enable you to see thecolour distinction of the back, and also that the Hermit hasa more yellowish throat and that the breast spots are moreacute. Its rarity differs very much according to location.It is comparatively common in the northeast, and Dr. Warrensays that in Pennsylvania it is, with the exce

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