Identifier: birdlore15noas (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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-! Dont you hear? dont you see? Hush! look In my tree! For I am as happy as happy can be.And the Brown Thrush keeps singing, A nest do you see?And, five eggs hid by me in the juniper tree?Dont meddle, dont touch, little girl, little boy,Or the world will lose some of its joy. Now Im glad I now Im free! And I always shall be. If you never bring sorrow to me. The Brown Thrasher well deserves the fame which it has achieved as a\ocalist, and fortunate is the man in whose garden a pair of these birds havechosen to take up their abode. Its song is the most varied note of the birdchorus heard at daybreak in the northern states. It is the Mockingbird of theNorth. In fact, so much does its song suggest the musical performances ofthat masterful vocalist that early American ornithologists often called it theTerruginous Mockingbird. (264)
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BROWN THRASHER Order—Passeres Family-MiMiD^ Genus—ToxosTOMA Species—Rufum National Association of Audubon Societies The Brown Thrasher 265 While sin<i;in;f, it usually occupies the topmost bough of some bush ortree and, although it sings mostly in the morning, it may occasionally beheard at any hour of the day. Its voice is loud, clear, and far-The Song reaching, but can hardly be said to possess the sweetness of tone so characteristic of the Wood Thrush and the Veery.The birds fame is based rather on the wide variety and clearness of noteswhich it produces, aided perhaps by the fact that it sings much in the imme-diate neighborhood of mans abode. Upon arriving in the spring from his winter home in the southern states,this bird usually announces his presence by his voluble song, with which hefloods the morning air from his perch on a neighboring tree. In common withmany other singing birds, the worry and responsibility of domestic life whichshortly come upon him do not, to an

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