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LITTLE THRUSH. 

 (Turdus minor.) 



Tu. fusco-nifescens, corpore suit us macidis nigricantibus vario, 



gala abdomine crissoque albis. 

 Brown-red Thrush, with the body beneath varied with dusky 



spots ; the throat, abdomen, and vent white. 

 Turdus minor. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. S(K). Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



328. 5.VieU. Ois. de P Amer. Sept. 2. 7- 

 Turdus iliacus carolinensis. Briss. 2. 212. 4. 

 Turdus fuscus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 817. female. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 322. 16. female. 

 Turdus solitarius. Wils. Amer. Orn. 5. Q5. 

 La Grivette d'Amerique. Bujf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 28p. 

 Mauvis de la Caroline. Buff. PI. Enl. 556. f. 2. 

 La Grive solitaire. Vieil. Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. 2. 7- pi- 63. 

 Brown Thrush. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 199. female. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 3. 28. 16. female. 



Hermit Thrush. JVils. Amer. Orn. 5. Q5.pl. 48. f. 2. 

 Little Thrush. Edw. gl. 296. Gates. Carol. 31. Pen. Arct. 



Zool. 2. 201. Lath. Gen. Syn.3. 20. 5. 



THIS is a small species, being only seven inches 

 in length : its beak and legs are dusky : orbits 

 pale : head and all the upper parts of the plumage 

 reddish brown: breast yellowish, varied with spots 

 of dusky : chin, belly, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts white: female with the spots on the breast 

 darker and more dusky : this species very much 

 resembles the Wood Thrush. 



The nest of this bird is composed externally of 

 coarse grass; it is put together extremely neat, 

 and most delicately lined with fine grass and horse- 



v. x. P. i. 12 



