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INSECTIVORjE. 



Family TURD ID ~JE. f Bonaparte.) 

 Genus Turdus. ( ' Linnccus.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak medium size, compressed, and 

 more or less bent at the tip; the upper mandible hollowed 

 out towards the end; isolated hairs at the gape. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, ovoid, and partly covered by a naked membrane. 

 Feet with the tarsi longer than the middle toe; the exterior 

 toe united at its base to the middle one. The first primary 

 almost wanting, or short; in some species the third is the 

 longest, in others the fourth. 



RED-BREASTED THRUSH. 



Tardus migratorius. 

 Turdus migratorius, Linn^us. Gmelin. Latham. 



" " VlEILLOT. TeMMINCK. 



" " Bonaparte. Schlegel. 



" Canadensis, Brisson. 



The Robin, Wilson. 

 Migratory Thrush, — 



American Fieldfare, Of Authors. 

 Merle JErratique and 



Litome du Canada, Of the French. 



Wanderdrossel, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — "Wings with the bastard feathers short; 

 first primary longer than the third, the second longest of all. 



