Identifier: birdsofmainewith00knig (find matches)
Title: The birds of Maine; with key to and description of the various species known to occur or to have occured in the state, an account of their distribution and migration, showing their relative abundance in the various counties of the state as well as other regions, and contributions to their life histories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Knight, Ora Willis, 1874-1913
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Bangor, Me. (printed by C. H. Glass & co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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NEST AND EGGS OF THE WOOD THRUSH.From till Warlilor, liy tlie kindness of Hon. John Lewis Cliilils.
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THRUSHES 623 756. Hylocichla Juscescens (Steph.). Wilsons Thrush;Veery; Tawny Thrush; Cheeury; Common Thrush; Nightin-gale. Plumage of adults: above an uniform cinnamon brown, which by manywould be called a deep russet or mummy brown; below white, stronglytinged with pale ochraceous buff on the sides of the throat and breast; cen-ter of the throat and the belly white; sides of throat and breast sparselyspotted with pale sepia wedge-shaped marks and a few fainter spots of thesame on the breast; lores and ring around eye grayish white. Immatureplumage: above deep umber brown, spotted with tawny olive and edgedwith dusky; otherwise very similar indeed to adults. Wing 3.90; tail 2.95;culmen 0.54. Geog. Dist.—Eastern North America, breeding from northern Illinois, NewJersey and Pennsylvania to Manitoba, Ontario, Anticosta and Newfoundlandand southward along the Alleghany Mountains to North Carolina; winteringin southern Florida sparingly, and more generally in Central America. County Rec

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