192 SPOTTED TH11USH. 



September it leaves Pensylvania, and arrives there 

 in March : it builds its nest in a low situation, on 

 a cedar or in a thick bush : its nest is composed 

 of sticks and leaves externally, and lined with 

 fibrous roots and horse-hair : its eggs are four in 

 number, of a blueish white, sprinkled with rust- 

 colour at the larger end: it has generally two 

 broods in the year : its song is very fine, and it 

 will imitate that of many birds, from whence it 

 has obtained the name of the French Mocking 

 Bird, to distinguish it from the common Mocking 

 Thrush of America. 



SPOTTED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus naevius.) 



TV. obscure cinereus, pileo nigric.tnte, fascia pone oculos corpore- 

 tjue subtus ferrugineis, tectricibus alarum remigibusque ferru- 

 gineo maculatis, pectore fascia nigra. 



Dull cinereous Thrush, with the top of the head dusky, a fascia 

 through the eyes, and body beneath ferruginous ; wing-coverts 

 and quills spotted with ferruginous; breast with a black 

 band. 



Turdus naevius. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 817- Lath. 2nd. Orn. 1. 

 331. 13. Vieil. Ois. de V Amer. Sept. 2. 10. 



Le Merle tachete. Vieil. Ois. de fAmer. Sept. 2. 10. pi, 66. 



Varied Thrush. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 337. * 55. 



Spotted Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 27. 13. 



NATIVE of Nootka Sound and New York : in 

 length ten inches : beak black, with the base of 



