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CHAPTER II. 



BROWN, OR FERRUGINOUS THRUSH, OR 

 THRASHER . Mimus ferrugineus. 



This large and beautiful Mocker, far 

 surpassing in sweetness and variety of 

 song the celebrated Throstle or Mavis, 

 of England, and scarcely inferior to the 

 glorious Mocking-bird in voice and talent, 

 is another of the choice, but too much 

 neglected songsters of our native land, 

 and a summer resident of the entire con- 

 tinent. 



His colour, which is handsomer than 

 that of the Mocking-bird, is a reddish- 

 brown, with the throat, breast and belly 

 of a yellowish-white, beautifully marked 

 with lanceolate umbrous spots. Two 

 bars of white, edged with black, ornament 

 the wings of this bird, and give a neat 

 effect to his appearance. His eyes are of 

 a bright yellow. 



