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U. S. p. E. EEXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOUY — GENEEAL EEPOET. 



TUEDUS MUSTELINUB, Gmelin. 



Wood Thrush. 



Turdus mustelinus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 817.— Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 331.— Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. 

 II, 18U7, 6 ; pi. Ixii.— NuTTALL, Man. 1, 1832, 343.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. 1, 1832, 372 : V, 1839, 

 446 ; pi. 73.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 24 ; pi. 144.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 270. 



Merula mustelina. Rich. List, 1837. 



Turdus melodus, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 35 ; pi. ii. 



Tawny thrush. Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 337. 



Sp. Ch. — Above clear cinnamon brown, on the top of the head becoming more rufous, on the rump and tail olivaceous. The 

 under parts are clear vphite, sometimes tinged with buff on the breast or anteriorly, and thickly marked beneath, except on the 

 chin and throat and about the vent and tail coverts, with sub-triangular, sharply defined spots of blackish. The sides of the 

 head are dark brown, streaked with white, and there is also a maxillary series of streaks on each side of the throat, the central 

 portion of which sometimes has indications of small spots. Length, 8.10 inches ; wing, 4.25 ; tail, 3.05 ; tarsus, 1.26. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to Missouri river ; south to Guatemala, 



This species is c[Uite stout in form ; the tail is even or very slightly rounded laterally ; the 

 feathers acuminate. The third and fourth quills are longest ; the second rather longer than 

 the fifth. The legs are yellow ; the bill brown, but yellow at the base beneath. 



A female specimen has nearly the whole lower parts tinged faintly with buff. 



List of specimens. 



TUEDUS PALLASII, Cabanis. 



Hermit Thrush.. 



Turdus pallasii, Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1847, 1, i, 205.— Ib. Museum Heineanum, 1850-1, 5. 



Turdus solitarius, Wilson, Am. Orn. V, 1812, 95, (not of Linnaeus. The figure quoted pi. xliii, fig. 2, belongs to 



T. siooimonii. )— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839.— Ib. Birds Am. HI, 1841, 29 ; pi. 146.— ^Bonaparte, 



List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. Av. 1850, 270.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1844, 191. 

 Merula solitaria, Swainson, P, Bor. Am. II, 1831, 184. (The figure pi. xxxv, probably belongs to T. swoinsonii.) — 



ViEiLL. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 7 ; pi. Ixiii, (in part with swainsonii.) 

 Turdus minor, Bon. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72.— Ib. Synopsis, 1828, 75.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1830, 346 Aud. 



Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 303 : V, 445 ; pi. 58. 

 Turdus guttatus, Cabanis, Tschudi Fauna Peruana, 1844, 6, 18T, (not Muscicapa guttata. Pall.) 

 ? Turdus minimus, Seligmann, Samml. II, 177 ; pi. Ixii. 



Sp. Ch. — Fourth quill longest ; third and fourth a little shorter ; second about equal to the sixth ; about .30 of an inch shorter 

 than the longest. Tail slightly emarginate. Above 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. 

 Beneath white, with a scarcely appreciable shade of pale buff across the fore part of the breast, and sometimes on the throat j 

 the sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with rather sharply defined subtriangular spots ot' dark olive brown ; the 

 sides of the breast with paler and less distinct spots of the same . Sides of the body under thejrings of a paler shade than the 

 back. A whitish ring round the eye ; ear coverts very obscurely streaked with paler. tength^.50 inches; wing, 3.84 ; tail, 

 3.25 ; tarsus, 1 .16 ; No. 2092. 



Hab. — Eastern North America to the Mississippi rivar. 



