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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, The life of birds (search)
ubon himself, in conversation, arranged our vocalists in the following order: first, the Mocking-Bird, as unrivalled; then, the Wood-Thrush, the Cat-Bird, and Red-Thrush; the Rose-breasted, Pine, and Blue Grosbeak; the Orchard and Golden Oriole; the Tawny and Hermit Thrushes; several Finches,—Bachmann's, the White-Crowned, the Indowing with life, it gives even its most familiar phrases an air of gracious condescension, as when some great violinist stoops to the Carnival of Venice. The Red Thrush does not, however, consent to any parrot-like mimicry, though every note of wood or field-Oriole, Bobolink, Crow, Jay, Robin, Whippoorwill-appears to pass in veiler, that the eggs of the Cat-Bird affiliate him with the Robin and the Wood-Thrush, all three being widely separated in this respect from the Red Thrush. The Red Thrush builds on the ground, and has mottled eggs; while the whole household establishment of the Wood-Thrush is scarcely distinguishable from that of the Robin, and the