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morning, and commences before sunrise, at which time 

 it is very load, full, and emphatic. 



The Robin is 9^ inches in length. Head, back of the neck, and 

 tail, black ; the back and rump ash-color. The wings black, edged 

 with pale ash. Three small spots of white border the eye. Throat 

 and upper part of the breast black, the former streaked with white. 

 Below, dark orange or rufous. Belly and vent "white. Legs dark 

 brown. Bill yellow, as in the European Blackbird; sometimes 

 dusky brown above towards the tip. The colors of the female are 

 paler. The young, during the 1st season, are spotted with white and 

 dusky on the breast, and at that time bear a considerable resemblance 

 to the Fieldfare of Europe. 



WOOD THRUSH. 



{Turdus inustelinus, Gm. Audubon, pi. 73. T. melodus, Wilsopt, 

 i. p. 35. pi. 2. fig. 1. Tawney Thrush, Pennant's Arctic Zoology, 

 ii. p. 19. No. 198. Latham, Synops. iii. p- 28. No. 15.) 



Sf. Charact. — Cinnamon-brown, rufous on the head ; rump and 

 tail inclining to olive ; beneath white, spotted with blackish ; tail 

 short, slightly emarginate ; the bill of moderate length. 



This solitary and retiring songster, during summer, 

 inhabits the whole continent from Hudson's Bay to 

 Florida ; and, according to my friend Mr. Ware, breeds as 

 far south as the vicinity of Natchez, in the territory of 

 Mississippi. Whether they leave the boundaries of the 

 United States in the winter, is not satisfactorily ascertain- 

 ed ; as the species is then silent, and always difficult of 

 access, its residence is rendered peculiarly doubtful. 

 The lateness of the season in which they still linger, ren- 

 ders it probable, that they may winter in the Southern 

 States, as a young bird, gleaning insects and berries, has 

 been caught in a garden in Boston on the 26th of Oc- 

 tober. 



