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U. S. p. E. REXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY— GENERAL REPORT. 



TURDUS MUSTELINUS, Gmelin. 



Wood Thrush. 



Turdus mustelinus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 817. — Latham, Ind. Orn. 11, 1790, 331. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept 

 II, 18U7, 6 ; pi. Ixii.— NuTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 343.— Addcbon, Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 372 : V, 1839, 

 • 446 ; pi. 73.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 24 ; pi. 144.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 270. 

 Mcrula mtislellna, Rich. List, 1837. 

 Turdus mclodus, Wilson, Am. Orn. 1, 1808, 35 ; pi. ii. 

 Tawny thrush, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 337. 



Sp. Ch. — Above clear cinnamon brown, on the top of the head becoming more rufous, on the rump and tail olivaceous. The 

 under parts are clear white, sometimes tinged with buff on the breast or anteriorly, and thickly marked beneath, except on the 

 chin and throat and about the vent and tail coverts, with sub-triangular, sharply defined spots of blackish. Tlie sides of the 

 head are dark brown, streaked with white, and there is also a maxillary series of streaks on each side of the throat, the central 

 portion of which sometimes has indications of small spots. Length, 8.10 inches ; wing, 4.25 ; tail, 3.05 ; tarsus, 1.2G. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to Missouri river ; south to Guatemala 



This species is quite stout in form ; the tail is even or very slightly rounded laterally ; the 

 feathers acuminate. The third and lourth quills are longest ; the second rather longer than 

 the fifth. The legs are yellow ; the hill brown, hut yellow at the base beneath. 



A female specimen has nearly the whole lower parts tinged faintly with bufi". 



List of specimens. 



TURDUS PALLASII, Cabanis. 



Hermit Thrnsh. 



Turdus pallasii, Cabanis, Wicgmann's Archiv, 1847, I, i, 205. — Ib. Museum Heinoanum, 1850-1, 5. 



Turdus solilarius, Wilson, Am. Orn. V, 1812, 95, (not of Linnaeus. The figure quoted pi. xliii, fig. 2, belongs to 



T. swainsonii.) — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 29; pi. 146. — Bonaparte, 



List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. Av. 1850, 270.— Brewer, I'r. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1844, 191. 

 Mtrula solilaria, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 184. (The figure pi. xxxv, probably belongs to T. stoainsonii.) — 



ViEiLL. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 7 ; pi. Ixiii, (in part with sit'otiisonii.) 

 Turdus minor, Bon. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72. — Is. Synopsis, 1828, 75. — Nuttall, Man. 1, 1830, 346, — AuD. 



Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 303 : V, 445 ; pi. 58. 

 Turdus guttalus, Cabanis, Tschudi Fauna Peruana, 1844, 6, 18T, (not Muscicapa gultala. Pall.) 

 ? Turdus minimus, Seligmann, Samml. II, 177 ; pi. Ixii. 



Sp. Ch. — Fourth quill longest ; third and fourth a little shorter ; second about equal to the sixth ; about .30 of an inch shorter 

 than the longest. Tail slightly eniurg nato. Above light olive brown, with a scarcely perceptible shade of reddish, passing, 

 however, into decided rufous on the rump, upper tail coverts, and lail, uiid tu a less degree on the outer surface of the wings. 

 Beneath while, with a scarcely appreciable t-hudu of paic bull across tliu fure part of the bioast, and somet nics on the throat ; 

 the sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with rather sharply defiiieJ stibtriungiilur spots o< dark olive bruwii ; the 

 sides of the breast with paler and less distinct spots of the same. Sides of the body under the wings of a paler shade than the 

 back. A whitish ring round the oyo ; ear coverts very obscurely streaked with paler. Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 3.84 ; tail, 

 3.25; tarsus, 1.16; No. 2092. 



llab. — Easlorn North America to the Mississippi river. 



