ROBIN. 569 



by the banks of rivers and lakes. According to the sugges- 

 tion of Dr. Richardson, its discoverer, it probably extends 

 its summer range to the shores of Great Slave Lake. 



Length 6 inches 8 lines ; the tail 2 inches 9 lines : the folded 

 wings 3 inches 3 lines ; the bill from above, ^ an inch ; tarsus 7^ 

 lines. Above hair-brown, very slightly tinged with olive-green, 

 much darker on the head than elsewhere. Wings and tail liver- 

 brown; the margins of the secondaries and their coverts, and the 

 outer edges of the exterior tail feathers, paler, as if worn. Below 

 pale, between oil-green and wax-yellow, the under tail coverts ap- 

 proaching to ochre-yellow. Bill blackish-brown. Legs black. Tail 

 an inch longer than the folded wings. The legs and feet much more 

 slender than in the Pewit. The secondaries and tertiaries are also 

 without the broad and distinct paler edgings of the Pewit. 



AMERICAN DIPPER. 



(Cinclus americanus, Swaixs. Synops. p. 367. No. 27. Richard, and 

 SwAi.vs. North. Zool. ii. p. l'^3. C. Pallasii, Bonap. Am. Orn. 

 iii. pi. 16, fig. 1. NuTTALL, Man. Orn. i. p. 358.) 



Sp. Charact. — Cinereous-grey ; head and neck blackish-brown. — 

 Young, blackish-grey inclining to ash ; throat and breast tinged 

 with clove-brown, quills and tail of the latter color, the seconda- 

 ries slightly tipped with white; the bill horn-color; feet flesh- 

 color. — In the adult the bill is black. 



Obs. a fourth species of this interesting genus is known to inhabit 



India. 



THE ROBIN. (Turdus migratorius). 



This bird, according to Richardson, inhabits every part 

 of the fur countries. Nests of the Robin are found as high 

 as the 67th parallel ; and from the reports of travellers it is 

 known to visit the north-west coast of America. It arrives in 

 the Missouri (inlat. 41io),from the eastward, on the 11th of 

 April ; and in the course of its northerly movement, visits Sev- 

 ern River in Hudson's Bay about a fortnight later. On the 



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