Two thrushes

May 22.

Saturday. On my way to Plymouth, looked at Audubon in the State-House. The female (and male?) wood thrush spotted the whole length of belly; the hermit thrush not so.

The seringo-bird cannot be the Savannah sparrow.

Two kinds of bluets in New York Report.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 22, 1852

See September 29, 1855 ("At Natural History Library saw Dr. Cabot, who says that he has heard either the hermit, or else the olivaceous, thrush sing,—very like a wood thrush, but softer. Is sure that the hermit thrush sometimes breeds hereabouts.”) and note to April 24, 1856 ("[S]ee a brown bird flit, and behold my hermit thrush, with one companion, flitting silently through the birches. I saw the fox-color on his tail-coverts, as well as the brown streaks on the breast.”). See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Signs of Spring: The Arrival of the Hermit Thrush

The seringo-bird cannot be the Savannah sparrow. See  May 2, 1852 ("I think that my seringo-bird has not the marks of the Savannah sparrow ") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Savannah Sparrow (Fringilla savanna)

Bluets. See April 20, 1860 (""C. sees bluets and some kind of thrush to-day, size of wood thrush, — he thought probably hermit thrush."); May 7,1860 ("I saw bluets whitening the fields yesterday a quarter of a mile off. They are to the sere brown grass what the shad-bush is now to the brown and bare sprout lands.")