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rise with more regularity and more gradually, are richer, and 

 each note is more complete in itself. Its song of lamentation, 

 when robbed of its young, is full of indescribable pathos and 

 beauty, haunting one who has heard it long after." 



Wilson's Thrush, or Veery 



Tardus (Hyloclchla) fuscesccns 



little Thrusb, Latlmm, Syn. il. pt. i, 1783, 30 No. 5 (not of Pennant). 



TurdUS minor, Gm. SN. i. pt. U. 1788, 809, No. 32 (In part ; mixed witli swainsoni). 



Turdus mnstellnus, Wils. AO. v. IBia, 98, pi. 43, f. 3 (nee Gm., nee auct.). 



TurdUS fuscescens, Stepk. Shaw's GZ. x. 1817, \S2.— /Kneel. Pr. BoBt. Socvi. 1857, 234. -BA 

 BNA. 1858, 214.— Sd.PZS. 1859, 326 (critical).— SC2. Ibis, 1861, 282— Gand. J. f. 0. 1861, 

 324 (Cuba).— Larer. Ann. Lyo. N. Y. vii. 1861, 326 (New G-ranada). Ooues If Prent. Smiths. 

 Rep. for 1861, 1862, iOi.—Sel. Cat. AB. 1862, i.—Hayd. Tr. Am. Philos. Soc. 1862, 

 158.— Verr. Pr. E^sex Inst. iii. 1862, 145.— Sirfisl. Ibis, v. 1833,58 (Saskatchewan).— Bd. 

 Rev. AB. 1864, 17.— All. Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 5S.— Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866, 

 2il.—Mellw. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 81 (Canada West).— Coum, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 

 266.— Cdkm, Pr. Bo»t. Soo. xii. 1868, 106.— ^Here, Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 1858, 493, 5li.— All. 

 Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 489.— Peii. Orn. Bras, ii, 1868, 92.—Turnt. B. E. Pa. 1869, 21; Phila. 

 ed. li.—Ridg. Pr. Phila. Acad. xxi. 1869, 127 (critical).— Afayre. Nat. Guide, 1870, 90.— 

 .,4660(1, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 540, 5il.—Mayn. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv, 1871, —.—Stevenson, U. 

 S. Qeol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 463.— .4i;. Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 256 ; iii. 1872, 155, 

 173 (Colorado).— Afnyra. B. Fla. 1872, 10.— Coues, Key, 1872, 73.— Eiit. Am. Nat. viii. 

 1874, 271.- Gundl. J. f. O. 1872, 405 (Cuba).— ATayn. Pr Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 3Sr.— Ooues, 

 BNW. 1874, 5; Trippe, ibid. 228 (Colorado).— ^Zien, Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 48 

 (Dakota).- B. B. * R. NAB. i, 1874, 9, pi. i. f. s.-Brexo. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438. 



TurdUS fnscesens, Bam. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1661, 435. 



Turdus aliens, Vieill. EM. ii. 1823, 647 (:= mustelinus mis.; nee eilens Sa.). 



Tardus wUsonil, Dp. Joum. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 34 (based oixmustelinus Wils. nee Gm.).—Bp. 

 Ann. Lyo. N. Y. ii. 1826, 76.-Pea6. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839,306.— ^ad. OB. ii. 1834, 362, 

 pi. 16i.—Aud. Syn. 1839, 90.— And. BA. iii.1841, 27, pi. US.— Cab. Pn. Peru. 1845-46, 

 188.— Oai. Arch. t. Naturg. 1817 (i), W5.—Homeyer, Rhea, ii. 1849, 148 (monog.).— Hoy, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 310 (Wisconsin).- TAomps. Vermont, 1853, 79.— Bead, Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 398 (Ohio).— Kckbjc. Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, eOl.—Pratten, Tr. 

 III. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 601.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 437 (Missouri).- T'rt^pe, 

 Pr. Essex Inst. vi. 1871, 115. 



IJirdUS Wilsonl, Bp. 0. & GL. 1838, 17.— Bp. CA. i. 1850, m.—Gund. J. f. O. 1855, 470 

 (Cuba).— Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 209.— Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 307 (Cuba).— 

 Gund. J. f. O. 1861, 405 (Cuba). 

 Merula Wllsonll, Brae. Pr. Bost. Soc. 1844, 191. 



:Merula minor, Sw. ^ Rich. PBA. ii. 1831, 179, pi. 3S.— 'Denny, PZS. 1847, 38. 



Turdus minor, Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 408.— D'Ori. La Sagra's Cuba, Ois. 1840, 47, pi. 5.—Degl.- 

 Gerbe, OB. i. 1867, 424 (Europe). 



Turdus bruneus, Brew. Joum. Bost. Soo. vi. 1853, 304 (chars, and habits).- Ca6or, Naum. 



Bd. ii. Hft. iii. 1852, 66 (Lake Superior). 

 Merle grlrette, Degland- Gerbe. 



Oh. sp. — 9 (J Bufo-brunneus, cauda concolore ; infra albus, 

 ■lateribus canis,jugulo tantum pallidd flavo-brunneseente, maculis 

 minimis, sparsis, sagittatis fuscis notato. 



Entire upper parts reddish-brown, with a faint olivaceous tinge ; no con- 

 4;rast of color between back and tail ; quilla and tail-feathers darker and 



