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rise with more regularity and more gradually, are richer, and 

 each note is more complete in itself. Its song of lamentation, 

 when robbed of its young, is full of indescribable pathos and 

 beauty, haunting one who has heard it long after." 



Wilson's Thrush, or Veery 



Turdus (Hylocichla) fuscescens 



Little ThrilSh, Latham, Syn. ii. pt. i. 1783, 20 No. 5 (not of Pennant). 



Turdus minor, Gm. SN. i. pt. ii. 1788, 809, No. 32 (in part ; mixed with swainsoni). 



Turdus mustelinus, Wils. AO. v. 1812, 98, pi. 43, f. 3 (nee Gm., necauct.). 



TurdUS fuscescens, Stept,.. Shaw's GZ. x. 1817, 182. ? Kneel. Pr. Boat. Soc. vi. 1857, 234. Bd. 

 BNA. 1858, 214. Scl.PZS. 1859, 326 (critical). Scl. Ibis, 1861, 282 Gund.J. f. 0. 1861, 

 324 (Cuba). Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 1861, 326 (New Granada). Coues 6f Prent. Smiths. 

 Rep. for 1861, 1862, 404. Scl. Cat. AB. 1862, Z.Hayd. Tr. Am. Philos. Soc. 1862, 

 158. Verr. Pr. Essex Inst. iii. 1862, 143. Blakist. Ibis, v. 1853, 58 (Saskatchewan). Bd. 

 Rev. AB. 1864, 17.-AII. Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 56. Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866, 

 231. Mcllw. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 84 (Canada West). Coues, Pr. Ess. Inat. v. 1868, 

 266. Coues, Pr. Bout. Soc. xii. 1868, 106. Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 1858, 493, 514. All. 

 Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 489. Pelz. Orn. Bras, ii, 1868, 92. Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 21; Phila. 

 ed. U.Ridg. Pr. Phila. Acad. xxi. 1869, 127 (critical). Mayn. Nat, Guide, 1870,90. 

 Abbott, Am. Nat, iv. 1870, 540, 541. May n. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv, 1871, .Stevenson, U. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 463. All. Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 256 ; iii. 1872, 155, 

 173 (Colorado). Mayn. B. Fla. 1872, 10. Coues, Key, 1872, 73. Edit. Am. Nat. viii. 

 1874, yil. Gundl. J. f. O. 1872, 405 (Cuba). Mayn. Pr Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 357. Coues, 

 BNW. 1874, 5; Trippe, ibid. 228 (Colorado). Allen, Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 48 

 (Dakota). B. B. ff R. NAB. i, 1874, 9, pi. i. f. s. Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438. 



TurdUS fUSCCSens, Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 435. 



TurdUS Silens, Vieill. EM. ii. 1823, 647 ( mustelinus Wils.; nee silens Sw.). 



TurdUS Wilsonii, Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 34 (based onmustelinus Wils. nee Gm.).Bp. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, IQ.Peab. Rep. Orn..Mass. 1839, 306. And. OB. ii. 1834, 362, 

 pi. 164. Aud. Syn. 1839, 90. And. BA.. iii. 1841, 27, pi. 145. Cab. Fn. Peru. 1845-46, 

 186. Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1817 (i), 205. Homeyer, Rhea, ii. 1849, 148 (monog.). Hoy, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 310 (Wisconsin). Thomps. Vermont, 1853, 79. Read, Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 398 (Ohio). Kennic. Tr. III. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 601. Pratien, Tr. 

 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 601. Hoy, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 437 (Missouri). Trippe, 

 Pr. Essex Inst. vi. 1871, 115. 



TurdUS Wilsoni, Bp. C. & GL. 1838, 17.-B^. CA. i. 1850, 271. Gund. J. f. O. 1855, 470 

 (Cuba). Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 209. Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 307 (Cuba). 

 Gund. J. f. O. 1861, 405 (Cuba). 



Merula WilSOnil, Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. 1844, 191. 



Merula minor, Sw. $ Rich. FBA. ii. 1831, 179, pi. 36. ? Denny, PZ3. 1847, 38. 



TurdUS minor, Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 408. D'Orb. LaSagra's Cuba, Ois. 1840, 47, pi. 5.Degl.- 

 Gerbe, OE. i. 1867, 424 (Europe). 



TurdUS bruneus, Brew. Journ. Bost. Soc. vi. 185?, 304 (chars, and habits). Cabot, Naum. 

 Bd.ii. Hft. iii. 1852, 66 (Lake Superior). 



Merle gri?ette, Degland- Gerbe. 



CH. SP. 9 $ Rufo-brunneus, cauda concolore ; infra albus, 

 lateribus canis.jugulo tantum pallide flavo-brunnescente, maculis 

 minimis, sparsis, sagittatis fuscis notato. 



Entire upper parts reddish-brown, with a faint olivaceous tinge ; no con- 

 trast of color between back and tail ; quills and tail-feathers darker and 



