Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds (1898) (14732760976)

Identifier: birdlifeguid00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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om as far south as Florida, north-Wood Thrush ward to southern Vermont and Minne-Turdus mmteiinus. sota. It winters in Central AmericaPlate lxxiv. an(j reacnes ug (n ^q springs about April 30, and remains until October 1. Its nest is built aboutthe middle of May, and is generally placed in a saplingsome eight feet from the ground. The eggs are greenishblue. The Wood Thrush is not such a recluse as the Yeery.He is, it is true, a wood lover, and shares with the Yeeryhis secluded haunts, but he seems equally at home inmaples and elms about our houses, or even in the morequiet village streets. He is therefore more often heardthan his mysterious relative, and, as a voice, is familiar tomany who do not know the singers name. The call-notes of the Wood Thrush are a liquid quirtand sharp pit-pit. The latter is an alarm note, which,when the bird fears for the safety of its young, is utteredwith much increased force and rapidity. It can be closelyimitated by striking two large pebbles together.
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Plate LXXV. Page 185. HEEMIT THEUSH. Length, 745 inches. Upper parts and wings dark cinnamon-brown;tail bright reddish brown; under parts white; breast spotted withblack; sides washed with brownish; belly white. _J_! #_; 1 HERMIT THRUSH. . 185 The song of the Wood Thrush is wholly unlike that of the Veeiy. It opens with the nutelike notes, and is sung disconnectedly, being broken by pauses and by low notes, audible only Come to me, when one is near the singer. The Hermit Thrush is a more northern bird thaneither the Yeery or the Wood Thrush. It rarely nests atHermit Thrush sea ^eve^ south of Vermont or northernTurdus aonalaschkai Michigan, but in the higher portions ofpaiiasii. Massachusetts and on the crests of the Catskills and Alleghanies in Pennsyl-vania, it is also found breeding. It winters from south-ern Illinois and Isew Jersey southward to the Gulf, itbeing the only member of its genus to inhabit the east-ern United States at that season. Its spring migrationsoccur between Ap