

SPECIES 5. TURDUS MUSTELINUS. 



TAWNY THRUSH 



[Plate XLIIL Fig. 3.] 



PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 5570. 



THIS species makes its appearence in Pennsylvania from the 

 south regularly about the beginning of May, stays with us a week 

 or two, and passes on to the north and to the high mountainous 

 districts to breed. It has no song, but a sharp chuck. About 

 the twentieth of May I met with numbers of them in the great 

 Pine swamp, near Pocano; and on the twenty-fifth of Septem- 

 ber, in the same year, I shot several of them in the neighbour- 

 hood of Mr. Bartram's place. I have examined many of these 

 birds in spring, and also on their return in fall, and found very 

 little difference among them between the male and female. In 

 some specimens the wing coverts were brownish yellow; these 

 appeared to be young birds. I have no doubt but they breed in 

 the northern high districts of the United States; but I have not 

 yet been able to discover their nests. 



The Tawny Thrush is ten inches long, and twelve inches 

 in extent; the whole upper parts are a uniform tawny brown; 

 the lower parts white; sides of the breast and under the wings 

 slightly tinged with ash; chin white; throat and upper parts of 

 the breast cream coloured, and marked with pointed spots of 

 brown; lores pale ash, or bluish white; cheeks dusky brown; 

 tail nearly even at the end, the shafts of all, as well as 

 those of the wing quills, continued a little beyond their webs; 

 bill black above and at the point, below at the base flesh co- 

 loured; corners of the mouth yellow; eye large and dark, sur- 

 rounded with a white ring; legs long, slender and pale brown. 



Though I have given this bird the same name that Mr. Pen- 

 nant has applied to one of our Thrushes, it must not be consid- 



