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



TURDUS MUSTELINUS, Gmelin. 



Wood Thrnsh. 



Tardus musteiinus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 817. — Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 331. — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept 

 II, 18U7, 6 ; pi. Ixii.— NuTTALL, Man. I, 1832, 343.— Auddbon, Orn. Biog. 1, 1832, 372 : V, 1839, 

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



Merula mustelina, Rich. List, 1837. 



Tardus melodus, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 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. The 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, 1.26. 



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 fourth quills are longest ; the second rather longer than 

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



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



lAst of specimens. 



TURDUS PALLASII, Cabanis. 



Ilermit Thrush. 



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



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



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



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

 Merula solitaria, Swainson, P. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 184. (The figure pi. xxxv, probably belongs to T. swaiitsonii.) — 



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

 Turdus minor, Bon. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72.— Ib. Synopsis, 1828, 75.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1830, 346.— Add. 



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

 Titrdus guttatus, Cabanis, Tschudi Fauna Peruana, 1844, 6, 187, (not Muscicapa guttata, Pall.) 

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



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

 than the longest. Tail slightly ems rg nate. Above light olive brown, with a scarcely perceptible shude of reddish, passing, 

 ho«tver, into dec ded rufous on tlie rump, upper tail coverts, and lail, and to a less degree on the outer surfaie of the win^s. 

 Beneath wliile, witli a scarcely appreciable ^hadc of pa e buff across the fore part of the bicasl, and somet nies on llic tliroal ; 

 the sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with rather sliarply defiiieJ subtriangular spots o. darK olive brown ; the 

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

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

 3.25; tarsus, 1.16; No. 2092. 



Hab . — Eastern North America to the Mississippi river. 



