(; 1^6 ) 

 THE MOCKING THRUSH. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill flrait, obtufely carinated at top, bending a little at the point, and 



nightly notched near the end of the upper mandible. 

 Nostrils oval and naked. 

 Tongue flightly jagged at the end. 

 Middle TOE connefted to the outer as far as the firft joint 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 

 ThruHi of a lead-coloured-brown above, whitilh beneath. 



Mocking Bird. 



Rati. Synops. p. 64. No. 5. p. 185. No. 31. 



Sloan. Jam. 1. 306. No. 34. 



Catejb. Car. 1. pi. 27. 



TH E Nightingale, fo uniformly admired as the pride of the European 

 woods, and fo celebrated from the earlieft ages for its fupereminent mu- 

 fical powers, continued to bear the palm of melody from the reft of the feathered 

 tribe till the difcovery of the weftern hemifphere. At that ftriking period the 

 knowledge of the animal world was increafed in all its branches by a vaft 

 variety of new and interefting fpecies j many of which exceeded in Angularity 

 of form all that the Old Continent had difplayed. The Opoflums, fo remark- 

 able for the extraordinary manner in which they bear their young about them, 

 long after the period of exclufion, were then firft difcovered : the Pipa, or 



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