olive-backed thrush

There is an assortment of taxidermied specimens, including a mouse and an olive-backed thrush; eggs from a brown pelican; a porcupine fish; and the jaw of a crocodile.

Calls, pheu like that of Veery; a low cluck like that of Hermit Thrush, and rarely, a pip or peenk like that of Olive-backed Thrush; song, like that of Veery but more interrupted.

It is hard for me ever to think of this brilliant, tropically dressed grosbeak as a true Northerner; and here once more I was for the moment surprised to hear him and the olive-backed thrush singing together in the same wood.

Vegetable food.—The vegetable food of the olive-backed thrush consists of small fruit.

The olive-backed thrush and its relative, the russet-backed, occupy the whole of the United States at some time during the year.