26° 
Var. ec. 
42. 
+ RED- 
BREASTED: 
THR.. 
Descriprion. 
PLACE AND 
Manners, 
TH RF UL SH 
Lev. Muf. 
Li E third variety has the head and neck white: the reft’of 
the body white, mixed with brown in patches. 
This was fhot in Derdy/bire, and is in the Leverian Mufeum. 
Turdus migratorius, Liz. Sy/f. i. p. 292- N° 6. 
La Grive de Canada, Brif. orn.ii. p.225. N° 9.—Pl. enl. 556. te- 
La Litorne de Canada, Buf. cif. iii. p. 307- 
Fieldfare of Carolina, Catefb. Car. i. pl. 29 
Robin Redbreaft, Kalz. Trav. il. p. go- 
American Fieldfare, Phil. Tranf. \xii. p. 399.—Ar&. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
IZE of the Mifel Thrufh: length nine inches: breadth: 
twelve. Bill brown, with the bafe yellow: eye-lids white: the 
upper parts of the body olive-brown ; the under rufous: the tips: 
of many of the feathers of the breaft and belly very pale, or 
whitifh: the throat white, marked with narrow dafhes of black :- 
tail black, edged with olive brown: legs brown. Male and fe- 
male much alike. 
This is a native of America. It is found in New York, Vir=- 
ginia, and Carolina the whole year ;. migrates in the more north- 
ern parts in fpring,.in May; returning fouthward on the firft ap- 
proach of froft. Found as far as Hud/on’s Bay*. ‘Thefe build in: 
trees, and lay four beautiful light-blue eggs. When at large, are- 
faid to fing finely ; but do not bear confinement in a cage. Their: 
* One of. thefe was lately brought from Nootka Sound, 
3 food: 
