SPECIES 9. TURDUS MIGRATORIUS. 



ROBIN. 

 [Plate II. Fig. 2.] 



LINN. Syst. i, p. 292, 6. Turdus Canadensis, BRISS. n, p. 225, 

 9. La Litorne de Canada, BUFF. m,j?. 307. Grivede Cana- 

 da, PL Enl. 556, \.-Fieldfare of Carolina, CAT. Car. 1, 29. 

 Red-breasted Tlirush, Jirct. Zool. n, JVo. J 96. LATH. Syn. 

 n, p. 26. BARTRAM,/?. 290. P BALE'S Museum, JVo. 5278. 



THIS well known bird, being familiar to almost every body, 

 will require but a short description. It measures nine inches 

 and a half in length; the bill is strong, an inch long, and of a 

 full yellow, though sometimes black, or dusky near the tip of the 

 upper mandible; the head, back of the neck and tail is black; 

 the back and rump an ash colour; the wings are black edged 

 with light ash; the inner tips of the two exterior tail feathers 

 are white; three small spots of white border the eye; the throat 

 and upper part of the breast is black, the former streaked with 

 white; the whole of the rest of the breast, down as far as the 

 thighs, is of a dark orange; belly and vent white, slightly 

 waved with dusky ash; legs dark brown; claws black and strong. 

 The colours of the female are more of the light ash, less deep- 

 ened with black; and the orange on the breast is much paler, 

 and more broadly skirted with white. The name of this bird 

 bespeaks him a bird of passage, as are all the different species 

 of Thrushes we have; but the one we are now describing being 

 more unsettled, and continually roving about from one region 

 to another, during fall and winter, seems particularly entitled 

 to the appellation. Scarce a winter passes but innumerable thou- 

 sands of them are seen in the lower parts of the whole Atlantic 



