FERRUGINOUS AND RED-BREASTED THRUSH. 33s 



Ground Mocking-bird, Lanv/on, J43. 195. Ferruoi- 



Fox-colpured Thrufh, Cate/iy, i. 28. »'°'"* 



Turdus rufus, Lin, Sjfi, 293. — Latham, lii. 39. 



La Grive de la Caroline, BriJJon, ii. 223. 



Le Moqueur Frargois, De Buffon, iii. 323 — ?/. Eul. 645.— Lev. Mus.— Bt. Mu«. 



'X'H. "With yellow irides: head, and whole upper part of the 

 ^ body, coverts of the wings, and the tail, of a pale ruft- 

 color : under part of a dirty white, fpotted with brown : acrofs the 

 coverts of the wings are two white lines : tail very long : legs brown. 

 Length twelve inches. 



Inhabits North America, fronn New York to Carolina. In the for- Place» 



mer, arrives in May, and migrates to the fouth in Aiiguji: continues 

 in Virginia and Carolina the whole year: builds in low bufhes, and 

 (in New Tork) breeds in June, and lays five white eggs, clofely 

 fpotted with ruft-colour. 



It feeds on berries, efpecially thofe of the duller bird-cherry, 

 of which all the Thrufh kind are very fond. It is called in 

 America the French Mocking-bird, from the variety of its notes ^ 

 but they are far inferior to the real. 



Fieldfare of Carolina, Catejby, 1. 29. tgfi. Red. 



La Grive de Canada, Briffon, ii. 225. BaEASTB». 



La Litorne de Canada, De Buffon, iii. 307. — PL Enl. 55S. 

 Tardus migratorius, Lin. Sjji, 295. — Latham, iii. 26. — ^Lev. Mui.— Bl. Mus.- 



'TPH. With the bill half yellow and half black : head and cheeks 

 black : orbits covered with white feathers : chin and throat 

 black, ftreaked with white : under part of the neck, the breaft, and 

 upper part of the belly, of a deep orange : vent white : back and- 

 rump of a deep afh-color : coverts and quil feathers dufky, 

 edged with white: inner coverts of the wings orange: tail black j 

 the outmoft feather marked with white : legS brown. Size of are 

 Englijh Throftle» 



Inhabits^ 



