To judge from Hewitson's figure, for I have never seen the egg, they in shape, size, and colour closely resemble the eggs of accentor alpinus, some I have being very slightly larger, and others exactly the same size as the figure referred to.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Probably the perch-songster among our ordinary birds that is most regularly seized with the fit of ecstasy that results in this lyric burst in the air, as I described in my first book, "Wake Robin," over thirty years ago, is the oven-bird, or wood-accentor-the golden-crowned thrush of the old ornithologists.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs
The song in quality and general cast is like that of its congener, the water-accentor, which, however, I believe is never delivered on the wing.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs