carashue

Updated: May 9, 2025

I found several times the nest of the Carashue, which is built of dried grass and slender twigs, and lined with mud; the eggs are coloured and spotted like those of our blackbird, but they are considerably smaller. There were three males seated on a low branch, and hopping slowly backwards and forwards, near to one another, as though engaged in a kind of dance.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

In early morning, the woods near my house were quite animated with their songs an unusual thing in this country. I heard here for the first time the pleasing wild notes of the Carashue, a species of thrush, probably the Mimus lividus of ornithologists. I found it afterwards to be a common bird in the scattered woods of the campo district near Santarem.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons