The Cat Bird. 



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The Crimea is not so warm as upper Italy, to which it corres- 

 ponds, and although it also presents, equally with the latter, 

 low groulids. Pekin is in the same parallel as Naples, but 

 wjth less medium temperature, and exposed to much greater 

 vicissitudes. 



The interest with which the subject of climate is always 

 studied, as well by the physician as by the naturalist and 

 agriculturist, will justify our indulging in further details here- 

 after. We shall then show, that even the mean temperature 

 of a place gives but an imperfect idea of its climate, unless 

 we know the difference bevveen its temperature in summer and 

 in winter. — Joui'nal of Health. 



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THE CAT BIPvD. 



[Turdus felivox, Vieill. T. lividus, Wilson, ii. p. 90. pi. 20. fig. 3. 

 Phil. Museum, No. 6770.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dark slate color, paler lieneath ; tlie vent rufous; the 

 crown and tail black, the latter rounded. 



This quaint and familiar songster" probably passes the win- 

 ter in the southern extremities of the United States, and 

 along the coast of Mexico, from whence, as early as February, 

 thev arrive in Georgia. About the middle of April they are 

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