To this same hemlock grove I was in the habit, in those days, of going now and then to listen to the evening hymn of the veery, or Wilson thrush.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey
A few robins were about the hotel, and I saw a single veery in the woods, but the only members of the thrush family that were present in large numbers were the hermits.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey
The present season he arrived on the 6th-the veery with him; last year he was absent until the 8th; while on the two years preceding he assisted at the observance of May-day.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey