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     peated eight or nine times around a series of intertwining circles, the 
     
     description may enable you to recognize the Veery’s song. 
     
    

    
     The Veery has a. double personality, or he may repeat the notes of 
     
     some less vocally developed ancestor, for on occasions he gives utter- 
     
     ance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of caching notes, and even 
     
     mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same un- 
     
     musical sacks, broken whistled calls, and attempted trills. Fortu- 
     
     nately, this performance is comparatively uncommon, and to most of 
     
     us the Veery is known only by his own strange, unearthly song. His 
     
     notes touch chords which no other bird’s song reaches. The Water- 
     
     'l‘hrush is inspiring, the Wood and Hermit- Thrushes “serenely exalt 
     
     the spirit,” but the Veery appeals to even higher feelings; all the 
     
     wondrous mysteries of the woods find a voice in his song; he thrills 
     
     us with emotions we can not express. 
     
    
   
   
    
     7588.. T. f. nucleolus (Ridgw). WILLOW Tartan—Similar to the 
     
     preceding, but with the upper parts slightly darker. 
     
    

    
     Range—Rocky Mountains, north to British Columbia; south in winter to 
     
     the tropics; migrates as far east as Illinois and, casually, South Carolina. 
     
    
   
   
    
     757. Turdus anciw Baird. GRAY-CIIEEKED TIIRUSH. xii—Upper 
     
     parts uniform olive, practically no difference between the colors of the back 
     
     and tail; eye-ring whitish, lores grayish ,' middle of, the throat and middle 
     
     of the belly white; sides of the throat and breast with a wen/faint tinge of 
     
     cream—buff; the feathers of the sides of the throat spotted with wedge-shaped 
     
     marks, those of the breast with half-round black marks; sides brownish gray 
     
     or brownish ashy. L., 7'58; W., 4'09; T., 2'96; B., '55. 
     
    

    
     Remarks—The uniform olive of the upper parts of this species at once 
     
     separates it from our eastern Thrushes except its subspecies bicknelli and the 
     
     Olive—backed Thrush. From the latter it may be known by the comparative 
     
     absence of bufl‘ on the breast and sides of the throat, by its whitish eye—ring 
     
     and grayish lores. 
     
    

    
     Kenya—North America; breeds in Labrador and northwestward to Alas- 
     
     ka; migrates through eastern North America to Central America. 
     
    

    
     Washington, rather common '1‘. V., May 10 to June 5: Sept. 10 to Oct. 10. 
     
     Sing Sing, tolerably common T. V., May 15 to June 1; Sept. 20 to Oct. 17. 
     
     Cambridge, uncommon T. V., May 15 to 25; Sept. 25 to Oct. 6. 
     
    

    
     Nest, of grasses, leaves, strips of fine bark, etc., lined with fine grasses, in 
     
     low trees or bushes. Eggs, four, greenish blue, spotted with rusty brown, 
     
     '92 x ‘67. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During its migrations Alice’s Thrush may be found associated with 
     
     the Olive-backed Thrush. from which it can be distinguished in life 
     
     only by an expert. It is a rather shy bird, and is apt to fly up from 
     
     the ground to some low limb, and,.after a moment’s pause, seek a more 
     
     distant perch before one reaches fair opera-glass range. 
     
    

    
     This species has been so long confused with Bicknell's Thrush that