82d 1907, August 30. (13) Hylocichla fuscescens. Concord, Mass. 177 Night call of Veery. The Veery I did not think of, even as a possibility, for it is the least common of the Thrushes which breed about Lake Umbagog and I have hitherto had no reason to suspect that it ever occurs there numerously in autumn as a migrant from regions still further north. That this must be the case, however, will appear from what I am about to add concerning the experience referred to in the opening sentences of this entry in my journal. no space Night call Identified as that of the Veery. The two birds heard, early this morning, in the oaks near the cabin called almost incessantly for ten or twelve minutes, giving practically every variation known to me of the sounds which I have just described at such length. As the light increased I noticed that their voices were changing gradually and beginning to resemble those of Wilson's Thrushes. At length one of them ut- tered an unmistakeable call of that species - the ordinary pheu, so like the sound of a man whistling to his dog, as Burrough puts it. This was soon followed, on the part of both birds, by other notes equally characteristic of the Veery, among them the low vi- brating or jarring cry. Thus the solution of a mystery that has puzzled me for many years has at length been vouchsafed me. heard The birds on this occasion became silent before it was broad daylight. I think they were migrants that had arrived and settled among the oaks just before I awoke. That they made all 27