. www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. fTurdus ustulatus s-wainsoiiii). ■Vparlv Liife-s.7,e.. HERMIT THRUSH.5 Life-size i THRUSHES 467 several in the vicinity of Butternut Lake, Wisconsin. Ingeneral structure the nests were very similar to the robins,but smaller, to correspond with size of the bird. The threeor four eggs are deep blue, beautifully dotted with deepbrown and chestnut. Nest building begins early in Juneand before the month is over most of the young havehatched. HERMIT THRUSH The Hermit Thrush ranges through eastern NorthAmerica, bree

. www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. fTurdus ustulatus s-wainsoiiii). ■Vparlv Liife-s.7,e.. HERMIT THRUSH.5 Life-size i THRUSHES 467 several in the vicinity of Butternut Lake, Wisconsin. Ingeneral structure the nests were very similar to the robins,but smaller, to correspond with size of the bird. The threeor four eggs are deep blue, beautifully dotted with deepbrown and chestnut. Nest building begins early in Juneand before the month is over most of the young havehatched. HERMIT THRUSH The Hermit Thrush ranges through eastern NorthAmerica, bree

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. www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. fTurdus ustulatus s-wainsoiiii). ■Vparlv Liife-s.7,e.. HERMIT THRUSH.5 Life-size i THRUSHES 467 several in the vicinity of Butternut Lake, Wisconsin. Ingeneral structure the nests were very similar to the robins,but smaller, to correspond with size of the bird. The threeor four eggs are deep blue, beautifully dotted with deepbrown and chestnut. Nest building begins early in Juneand before the month is over most of the young havehatched. HERMIT THRUSH The Hermit Thrush ranges through eastern NorthAmerica, breeding from northern Michigan and Massachu-setts northward and southward along the AUeghanies toPennsylvania, and wintering from southern Illinois andNew Jersey to the Gulf States. In the Canadian fauna the hermit thrush, the most def-inite thrush to study, comes a month before the oHve-backedthrush arrives, while the snow wraiths still linger in theshadowy forests. In the fall it tarries as long after theohve-backed has departed. When the hermit thrush appears in the spring its songis wonderfully sweet, but it does not come into full p