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crown of the head black : the under parts of the 

 body cinereous : the vent and under tail-coverts 

 dull red : tail blackish : legs brown. At the latter 

 end of February this species arrives in Georgia 

 from the south, and in Pensylvania about April : 

 it is fond of building in low thickets of briers and 

 brambles, where it perches and utters its cry, 

 which is precisely like that of a young kitten : it 

 is extremely numerous in the United States, but 

 is much hated by the inhabitants : it is very fond 

 of ripe fruit of all sorts, especially strawberries 

 and cherries : its nest is made of dry leaves, 

 weeds, twigs, and dry grass, well lined with 

 fibrous roots: its eggs are of an unspotted green 

 blue, and are four or five in number : it has gene- 

 rally two and often three broods in the year. 



BLACK AND SCARLET THRUSH. 

 (Turdus speciosus.) 



Tu. ater, abdomine dorso postico tectricibus alarum intermediis 

 maculis tribus remiginm rcclridbusque lateralibus coccineis, 



Dark-coloured Thrush, with the abdomen, upper parts of the 

 back, middle wing-coverts, the spots on the quills, and the 

 lateral tail-feathers, scarlet. 



Turdus speciosus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 3(53. 135. 



Black and Scarlet Thrush. Lath. Syn. Sup. 146. 128. 



DESCRIBED by Latham as the " size of the Song- 

 Thrush : length eight inches and a half: beak 

 v. X. P. I. 18 



