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with the Tawny Thrush: beak black, with the 

 base of the under mandible flesh-colour: eyes 

 dark, surrounded with white. Inhabits the coun- 

 try to the north of Pensylvania, in which place 

 it only stays a week or ten days at a time in its 

 passage north in May, and south in September. 



REDWING THRUSH. 

 (Turdus iliacus.) 



Tu. griseo^fuscus, subtus albidus maculis fuscis, ahs subtusfer- 



rugineis, siiperdliis albkantibus. 

 Grey-brown Thrush, beneath whitish, with brown spots ; wings 



beneath ferruginous; supercilia whitish. 

 Turdus iliacus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 2Q2. 3. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



2,ia.GmeI. Syst. Nat. 1. 808. Briss. 2. 2O8. 3. t. 2O.f. 1. 



Turt. Brit. Faun. 1. 35. 63. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 32p. 7. 

 Le Mauvis. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 3Qy.Buf. PI. Enl. 51. 

 Redwing, or Wind Thrush. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 108 Pen. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 342. D. Albin. Birds. \. 35. Lenin. Brit. 



Birds. 2. Sg. Berwick. Brit. Birds. 1. 102. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 22. 7. Mont. Brit. Birds. 2.- Lath. Sup. I3g. 7. 



WEIGHT near two ounces and a half: length 

 eight inches and a half: beak dusky, yellowish at 

 the base of the upper mandible : irides dusky : 

 over the eye a whitish streak : prevailing colour 

 of the upper parts brown, lighter on the edges of 

 the quills and wing-coverts : breast and sides 

 varied with dusky lines : the sides of the body 

 and under the wings reddish orange : middle of 



