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Title: Handbook of birds of eastern North America, with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests, and eggs ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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finished song is quite as remarkable as the ordinaryperformance of his large prototype, but is possessed of so little volumeas to be inaudible unless one is quite near the singer. His character-istic call-note—a rather sudden ting, like the twang of a banjo string—can be heard at a greater distance. Family Turdid^. Thrushes, Bluebirds, etc. The three hundred species included in this large family are placedby systematists in several subfamilies. About one hundred and fiftyare true Thrushes belonging in the subfamily Turdince. These aredistributed throughout the world, some twelve species inhabiting theUnited States. As a rule, they inhabit wooded regions, are migratory,and gregarious or sociable to a greater or less extent during their mi-grations and in winter. As songsters they are inferior to some of our birds in power ofexecution, but their voices are possessed of greater sweetness andexpression, and they are conceded first rank among song-birds by alltrue lovers of bird music.
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Wood Thrush.Wilsons Thrush. THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 395 KEY TO THE SPECIES. A. Tail blue; back blue or bluish 766. Bluebird. £. Tail black or blackish, tipped with white 761. Kobin. C. Tail white, tipped with black 765. Wheatear. I). Tail olive-brown or rufous, without white spots. a. Upper parts cinnamon-brown ; tail not brighter than the back. a*. Entire under parts, including sides^ more or less heavily marked withround, black spots; back 5/v^A2;<?r than tail . . 755. Wood Thrush. a2. Throat and upper breast pale buify, with small, cinnamon-brown,wedge-shaped spots; belly pure white ; sides with a barely perceptiblegrayish wash 756. Wilson^s Thrush. b. Upper parts oUve; back and tail nearly the same color. b^. Throat, breast, cheeks, eye-ring, and lores deep cream-buff. 758a. Olive-backed Thrush.J3. Throat, breast, cheeks, eye, and space before the eye white, with onlya very slight buffy tinge. 757. Gray-cheeked Thrush. 757a. Bicknells Thrush. c. Upper parts olive-brown, some

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