SPECIES 3. TURD US MEL OD US. * 



WOOD THRUSH. 



[Plate II. Fig. 1.] 



BAHTRAM, p. 290. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 5264. 



THIS bird is represented on the plate of its natural size; and 

 particular attention has been paid to render the figure a faithful 

 likeness of the original. It measures eight inches in length, and 

 thirteen from tip to tip of the expanded wings; the bill is an inch 

 long, the upper mandible of a dusky brown, bent at the point, 

 and slightly notched; the lower a flesh colour towards the base; 

 the legs are long, and, as well as the claws, of a pale flesh colour, 

 or almost transparent. The whole upper parts are of a brown 

 fulvous colour brightening into reddish on the head, and inclin- 

 ing to an olive on the rump and tail; chin white; throat and 

 breast white, tinged with a light buff colour, and beautifully 

 marked with pointed spots of black or dusky, running in chains 

 from the sides of the mouth, and intersecting each other all over 

 the breast to the belly, which, with the vent, is of a pure white; 

 a narrow circle of white surrounds the eye, which is large, full, 

 the pupil black, and the iris of a dark chocolate colour; the in- 

 side of the mouth is yellow. The male and female of this species, 

 as indeed of almost the whole genus of Thrushes, differ so little 

 as scarcely to be distinguished from each other. It is called by 

 some the Wood Robin, by others the Ground Robin, and by 

 some of our American ornithologists Turdus minor, though, 

 as will hereafter appear, improperly. The present name has 

 been adopted from Mr. William Bartram, who seems to have 



* Turdus mustelinus, GMELIX, which name must be adopted: We add the 

 following synonymes: T. mustelinus. GMEL. Sy$t. i. p. 817. LATH. Syn. HI, 

 p. 28. VIEILL. Ois de l\tm. Sept. pi. 62. Tawny Thrush, Arcl. Zool. II, p. 

 337, No. 198. 



