Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Range (Eastern United States breeds) (XVII)

Eastern United States; breeds as far north as Minnesota, Vermont, and Quebec; winters in Central America. Washington, common S. R., Apl. 20 to Oct. 15. Sing Sing, common S. R., Apl. 30 to Oct. 2. Cambridge, rather common S. R., May 12 to Sept. 15. Nest, of leaves, rootlets, fine twigs, and weed stalks, firmly interwoven, with an inner wall of mud and lining of fine rootlets, generally in saplings, about eight feet up. Eggs, three to five, greenish blue, lighter and with less green than those of the Catbird, averaging lighter, but not certainly distinguishable in color from those of the Robin, 1.05 x 76.. The Wood Thrush is not so distinctively a bird of the woods as the

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