Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
THE SONG BIRDS
THE THRUSHES
South American Thrush
The only other species of the genus that space will permit us to mention is the Dusky or South American Thrush (P. amauro-chalina) of northern and eastern South America, which is olive-gray above, becoming browner on the head and pale gray below with the throat and middle of the abdomen white.”It is,”says Mr. Hudson,”a shy forest bird, a fruit and insect eater; abrupt in its motions; runs rapidly on the ground with beak elevated and at intervals pauses and shakes its tail; strong on the wing, its flight not being over the trees, but marked by their shadows.”As a singer it takes high rank, perhaps the highest of any South American bird, its strains, usually given from the tree-top, being”poured forth in a continuous stream, with all the hurry and freedom of the Skylark's song, but though so rapidly uttered, every note is distinct and clear, and the voice singularly sweet and far-reaching.”Its nest and eggs are closely similar to those of the last-mentioned species.
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