CHAPTER XVII. 



THE THRtJSH FAMILY 



(TurdidcE]. 



The American Mocking-Bird The American Robin 

 The Rock Thrush The Blue or Solitary Thrush 

 The Grey-winged Blackbird The. Orange- 

 headed Ground Thrush The Sorry Thrush The 

 Brown Thrush. 



REPRESENTATIVES of the Thrush family 



are to be met with in all parts of the 

 globe, from the Falkland Islands in the 

 Southern to Iceland in the Northern 

 Atlantic, as well as in every intermediate station, both 

 in the Old World and the New. 



THE AMERICAN MOCKING-BIRD, Mimus polyglottus 

 (see Fig. 29), perhaps the most famous member of 

 the family, and concerning which so much has been 

 written by Wilson, Audubon, and other American 

 naturalists, is an insignificant-looking grey bird, less in 

 size than our Thrush and of slimmer build ; its lower 

 parts are greyish-white. The female greatly resembles 

 the male, and has frequently bred in confinement 

 in this country. As the Mocking-Bird I had in my 



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