54 TURDID^E : THRUSHES. 



Inst., x, 1878, p. oo; all these notices referring to the 

 same case.) 



The bird had been previously, but wrongly, accred- 

 ited to New England ; for it appeared afterward that 

 a specimen found in the Boston market was really from 

 New Jersey. There are other instances of the capture 

 of specimens at Islip, Long Island, and at Hoboken, 

 New Jersey. (See Coues, Birds Col. Valley, 1878, 

 p. 19.) 



WOOD THRUSH. 



TURDUS MUSTELINUS Gm. 



Chars. Upper parts tawny, purest and deepest on the head, shading 

 into olive on the rump and tail ; below, white, faintly tinged on 

 the breast with buff, nearly everywhere marked with large, well- 

 defined, rounded or triangular spots of blackish. Inner webs 

 and ends of wing-quills dark brown, with buffy or whitish edging 

 toward their bases. Ear-coverts sharply streaked with dusky 

 and white. Bill blackish-brown, with flesh-colored or yellowish 

 base of under mandible. Feet flesh-colored. This is the largest 

 species of the subgenus Hylocichla, which includes all the smaller 

 spotted Thrushes of North America. Length, 7.50-8.00 ; extent, 

 about 13.00 ; wing, 4.00-4.25 ; tail, 300-3.25 ; bill, 0.75 ; tarsus, 

 1.25. The sexes are alike. In its first plumage the young is 

 speckled above. 



This famous vocalist, whose song is so delightful at 

 dawn and sunset during the mating season, is a sum- 

 mer resident, but not very abundant, and less so in 

 northern than in southern New England, being de- 

 cidedly the most southerly of the four common species 

 of its subgenus. It is one of the species which is prac- 

 tically limited in its northward range by the Allegha- 

 nian Fauna, and its presence in New England in 



