_Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens. Case 6, Fig. 73_
Upperparts, including tail, uniform
cinnamon-brown, breast buff with indistinct
brownish spots; sides white. L. 7-1/2.
_Range._ Nests from northern New Jersey and
northern Illinois into Canada and south in the
Alleghanies to Georgia; winters in the tropics. A
closely related western form, the Willow Thrush
(_H. f. salicicola_) nests in Minnesota and
westward, and migrates through the Mississippi
Valley. To the field naturalist it is essentially
the Veery.
Washington, common T.V., Apl. 26-June 2. Aug.
18-Sept. 25. Ossining, common S.R., Apl. 29-Sept.
5. Cambridge, locally abundant S.R., May 8-Sept.
5. N. Ohio, common S.R., Apl. 20-Oct. 1. Glen
Ellyn, tolerably common T.V., Apl. 24-May 29; Aug.
26-Sept. 3; SE. Minn., common S.R. May 5.
Low, wet woods with considerable undergrowth, where skunk cabbage and
hellebore flourish are the home of the Veery. Here he winds his
mysterious double-toned spiral song, and here, on the ground, hidden
beneath the rank vegetation, he builds his nest. The eggs, laid late in
May, resemble those of the Wood Thrush. The Veery's common call is a
clearly whistled _wheé-you_, quite unlike the _quirt_ or _pit-pit_ of
the Wood Thrush. Except in mountainous regions and some local
'stations,' the Wood Thrush and Veery are the only Thrushes which nest
in the eastern United States south of Massachusetts.