. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . way removed from the road, the singersends his voice careering over field and meadow, lane and wood-lot, till all mayhear him for a hundred rods around. What a magnificent aria he sings!Precise, no doubt, and conscious, but it is full-voiced and powerful. Now andthen he lapses into mimicry, but for the most part his notes are his own—piquant, incisive, peremptory, stirring. There is in them the gladness of the 258 THE BROWN THRASHER. open air, the jubilant boasting of a soul unta
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . way removed from the road, the singersends his voice careering over field and meadow, lane and wood-lot, till all mayhear him for a hundred rods around. What a magnificent aria he sings!Precise, no doubt, and conscious, but it is full-voiced and powerful. Now andthen he lapses into mimicry, but for the most part his notes are his own—piquant, incisive, peremptory, stirring. There is in them the gladness of the 258 THE BROWN THRASHER. open air, the jubilant boasting of a soul untamed. Each phrase is repeatedtwice. Thats the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest )ou think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture. He opens his bill wide, his body vibrates with emotion, and each note isgraced by a compensating movement of the drooping tail. Altho the Brown Thrasher does not make such hopeless confusion of jestand earnest as does the Catbird, there is still something of the buffoon abouthim, and his ways in the bush are not altogether above criticism. Possibly. Photo by E. B. OF THE BROWN THRASHER. with the best of motives, but still in a very annoying fashion the bird sneaksabout through the brush and insists upon knowing your business. From timeto time it utters a sharp repulsive tsook, and occasionally a suggestive vou-nh,which makes one feel couspicuous and uncomfortable. The birds eve too,with its orange iris, while it must be admitted to harmonize perfectly with thewarm russet of the j^lumage, has a sinister cast which might prejudice theunthinking.
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