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Tardus Sivainsoni, Cabanis, — {T. solitarius partim, Wilson; T. 

 olivaceus, Giraud; and T. ohsoletus, Lawrence;) — has been captured 

 several times in Europe. Two in Belgium; another in France, near 

 Namur, in 1844, which is in the possession of the Baron de Selys- 

 Longchamps; and one in Liguria, which was kept alive by Durazzo 

 the naturalist several months. Durazzo describes its song as different 

 from that of T. miisicus, and that it never uttered the Thrushes' 

 whistle. Sometimes it sang rather sweetly in the middle of the 

 night. 



This bird is, however, an inhabitant of the eastern part of North 

 America, and I may take this opportunity of saying that American 

 birds will be treated in this work as stragglers merely, and few of 

 them or their eggs will be figured. A short description will, however, 

 be given of each. 



Dr. Sclater has been kind enough to lend me an authentic skin of 

 this bird from Guatemala, on the authority of Mr. Skinner. This 

 bird has the appearance of a small Song Thrush, from which, how- 

 ever, it is readily distinguished. The upper parts are of a uniform 

 dark olive green; throat, neck, and chest white, thickly spotted on 

 each side of the throat with triangular dark olive spots, which spread 

 over the chest more uniformly. The abdomen dusky. Under tail 

 coverts white, with faint brown spots on each side; under part of 

 tail feathers and wing feathers slaty brown. Length seven inches; 

 wing four inches; tarsus one inch; beak seven eighths of an inch. 



I have a specimen of the e^g, sent to me by Dr. Brewer, of 

 Boston. It only measures six eighths of an inch by five eighths, 

 about the size of a Chaffinch's e^^, of a greenish colour, thickly 

 studded about the smaller end, and sparingly elsewhere, with rusty 

 blotches. 



Turdus Pallasii, Cabanis; T. minor, Bonaparte. — The "Hermit 

 Thrush," which is also a north-eastern American species, has been 

 captured in Germany. It is a small bird, rather larger than T. 

 Swainsoni. It has the upper parts of "a light olive brown, with a 

 scarcely perceptible shade of reddish, passing, however, into decided 

 rufous on the rump, upper tail coverts, and tail, and to a less degree 

 on the outer surface of the wings." This distinguishes it at once 

 from T. Swainsoni, with which it has been frequently confounded. 

 "The sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with rather 

 sharply defined subtriangular spots of dark olive brown; the sides 

 of the breast with paler and less distinct brown spots of the same. 

 Sides of the body under the wings of a paler shade than the back; 



