It chanced one day that when they were resting in the noontide heat, under the perfumed shade of a hawthorn in bloom, they saw on the edge of the meadow, spread out before them, a speckled thrush cowering in the grass.
The children went home, and all night long they were dreaming of the thrush and the nine little pipers; and when the birds sang in the morning, they got up and went out into the meadow to watch the mountain.
The Sparrow, the Dove, The Linnet andThrush say, "I love and I love!
And the brown thrush keeps singing, "A nest do you see, And five eggs, hid by me in the juniper-tree?
The marvel of its kind is, perhaps, the wonderful carpentry which the thrush executes.
The snipes and partridges descend from their mountains at the moment when the quail and the thrush emigrate towards the south.
Even among the snow, the thrush saluted us when we arose.
The same treatment as given for thethrush (See par.
This bird resembles a thrush only in its color, which is olive-brown above, and grayish-white beneath, with speckled throat and breast.
The wood-thrush is found also, but is much more rare and secluded in its habits than either of the others, being seen only during the breeding season on remote mountains, and then only on their eastern and southern slopes.
I have seldom known two of these birds to be singing at the same time in the same locality, rivaling each other, like the wood-thrush or the veery.
I have met the gray-cheeked thrush (Turdus aliciae) in the woods, and held him in my hand; still I do not know him.
The birds of California, it is said, were mostly silent till after its settlement, and I doubt if the Indians heard the wood-thrush as we hear him.
Now the golden trillide-de of the wood-thrush sounded through the silent woods.
The wood-thrush and the hermit stand at the head as songsters, no two persons, perhaps, agreeing as to which is the superior.
The song of the wood-thrush is more golden and leisurely.
All of a sudden the thrush flew past Mayall into the forest, and the practiced ear of Mayall heard a rippling in the stream, like running water dashing against some slight obstruction.
The thrush that Ayrault had often in life admired, and that she had for some reason brought up-stairs, was silent and asleep.
The thrush hanging in the window sang divinely, and in a silver frame he saw a likeness of himself.
A thrush sings ceaselessly through the morning from a beech tree on the other side of the lane, falls silent during the heat of the afternoon and begins again as the shadows lengthen and a cool wind comes out of the west.
The Hermit-Thrush may be easily identified by his color; his back being a clear olive-brown, becoming rufous on his rump and tail.
In Europe the parallel case is that of the Cuckoo, and occasionally our own Cuckoo imposes upon a Robin or a Thrush in the same manner.
Furthermore, thrush shows no tendency to spread, and, even when left untreated, may remain confined to the frog for months, and even years.
With a bad thrush lameness is present, the frog itself is tender to pressure, and often there is considerable heat and tenderness of the heels and the coronet immediately above.
The discharge from thrush is not so profuse, and is thicker and darker in colour, while the loosening of the horn is almost entirely absent.
In a nag-horse with thrush of both fore-feet lameness becomes sometimes very great.
We believe both to be due to specific causes as yet undiscovered, but that the cause of thrushis not the one operating in canker.
At the same time, thrush of the contracted frog begins to make its appearance.
Thrush is, in fact, nearly always present in the later stages of contracted foot.
Canker, on the other hand, is slowly progressive, and soon shows the characteristic fungoid excresences, which growths are in thrush never seen.
A further cause of thrush is to be found in the condition of the frog, brought about by contraction of the heels (see p.
It is, perhaps, even more likely to be confounded with contraction when we have with the contraction a state of atrophy and thrush of the frog.
By some thrush is believed to be but the commencement of canker.
Most people know the common thrush and the blackbird when they see them, and many country-folk, indeed, recognize no more.
But for the moment it might be possible, it is true, to mistake the mistle thrush for the more common song-thrush.
The song of even a captive thrush is sweet indeed; but I would rather hear its voice in a choir of birds singing in the woods.
Whilst the golden day is stealing through the valleys dim-- Thrush and blackbird, lark and linnet, doves that coo and hum Wild delight and soft rejoicing, for the day is come.
But neither the blackbird nor the thrush is so pretty as the "little bird with bosom red" of which we are all so fond.
The thrush begins to sing very early, before there are any leaves for him to hide himself among, while the robin's song is heard not only in autumn, but in winter when all others are silent.
American throstle or thrush, the brown thrush or sandy mocking-bird.
When David thinks I am adorable, I quite agree with him, and when you tell me that I am a worm, I look wildly round for the thrush that is going to eat me.
The thrush scudded off into the bushes at the sound of Dodo's shrill voice and clapped hands.
Those notes, Pensively slow and sadly exquisite, Were what the wood-thrush piped at early dawn After that evening passage in the boat, When stars came out, that never more shall set.
If a little bird comes bearing down towards a bigger one, the bigger one will move away; even a full-grown thrush offers no resistance to a sparrow, but simply takes itself off.
And a thrush may be singing as high as ever its voice can go, and then, just at its highest pitch, the note breaks suddenly at a right angle; clear and clean as if cut with a diamond; then softly and sweetly down the scale once more.
Even in the final interview between father and son Mr. Thrush had been much discussed.
Mr. Thrush looked down steadily at the "round" which glistened on his plate.
Mr. Thrush was to be installed on the following Sunday.
I don't know what Mr. Thrush will do," she said, with a change to deep gravity.
Of Mr. Thrush so much could hardly be said with truth.
Because," he hesitated an instant and then advanced with the audacity born of ignorance, "you're as much alike as a thrush and a paroquet.
A thrush could hardly borrow the plumage of a paroquet," Trent had said; and the brilliant loveliness which had disturbed the peace of other women she had known, had produced in Laura only an increasing delight, a more fervent rapture.
The king listened attentively, and being pleased with the song he praised the thrush very much.
Going through a forest they saw a thrush strutting about on the top of a tree.
And other birds, like the finch and the thrush and the heron, come, and all bring accusations against the man, and the evil angel enters them in his book.
When they reached the palace, the king, seeing how beautiful the thrushlooked with his golden feathers, received him affably and placed him at the head of the table.
He makes the thrush and blackbird equal in the two qualities first named, which is equally wide of the mark.
Bates, the naturalist of the Amazon, speaks of a little thrush he used to hear in his rambles that showed the American quality to which I have referred.
When I was hunting for the nightingale, the thrush frequently made such a din just at dusk as to be a great annoyance.
The wood thrush was the most abundant, and the purity and eloquence of its strain, or of their mingled strains, heard in the cool dewy morning from across that translucent sheet of water, was indeed memorable.
Hence our wood thrush will continue in song over into August if, as frequently happens, its June nest has been broken up by the crows or squirrels.
A thrush of a much mellower strain is the blackbird, which is our robin cut in ebony.
The song-thrush and the robins soon made such a musical uproar along the borders of a grove, across an adjoining field, as quite put me out.
Just then a bird like our hermit thrush came quickly over the hedge a few yards below me, swept close past my face, and back into the thicket.
It has none of the flute-like melody and serene, devotional quality of our thrush strains.
This is to a certain extent confirmed by Mr. MacCulloch, who says he is very doubtful as to the occurrence of the Jay in the Island, and adds that the local name for the Mistletoe Thrush is "Geai.
I am afraid, however, that the shorter appellation of Missel Thrush will stick to this bird in spite of all attempts to the contrary.
The rugged brows Of March relaxed 'neath April's flying kiss: Again the violet rose, the thrush was loud; Mayday had come.
