de 
TURDUS FUSCESCENS, Stephens. 
WILSON'S THRUSH. 
Le Mauvis de la Caroline, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 212 (1760). 
La Grivette d'Amérique, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 289 (1775). 
Little Thrush, Latham, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 20 (1783). 
Turdus minor, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 809 (1788). 
Turdus mustelinus (nec Gm.), Wilson, Amer. Orn. v. p. 98, pl. 43 (1812). 
Turdus fuscescens, Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. x. p. 182 (1817) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 
p. 78 (1872); id. B. N.-West, p. 6 (1874); Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. 
p. 9 (1874); Salvin & Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 10 (1879); Seebohm, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. v. р. 203 (1881); A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. В. p. 817 (1895); Ridgw. 
Man. N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 574 (1896). 
Turdus silens, Vieill. Enc. Méth. ii. p. 647 (1823, nec Swains.). 
Turdus wilsoni, Bp. Journ. Philad. Acad. iv. p. 34 (1824). 
Merula minor, Swains. & Richards. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, р. 179, pl. xxxvi. (1831). 
Merula wilsoni, Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. i. p. 191 (1844). 
Turdus brunneus, Brewer, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 304 (1852). 
Turdus (Hylocichla) fuscescens, Coues, B. Color. Vall. p. 39 (1878). 
Hylocichla fuscescens, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 207 (1881). 
T. minor : caudá rufescenti-brunneá, dorso concolore : hypochondriis et axillaribus Сат? cinereis : gulá fulvescente, 
maculis pallidis fuscis triquetris ornatá. 
Тнів little Thrush is called by American ornithologists the * Veery," the “ Tawny Thrush," and 
“ Wilson's Thrush.” It may be recognized by its grey flanks and uniform <“ tawny-brown ” (Ridgway) 
or * russet-brown ” (Seebohm) colour, the tail being of the same tint as the back. The throat is pale 
buff, with very light dusky spots. 
It is a species of the eastern United States, and extends beyond the frontier into British North 
America. Prof. Elliott Coues says that it extends north to Hudson's Bay and west to the Saskatchewan 
(B. N.-West, p. 6). It reaches to Southern Labrador, where Audubon saw young birds on the 20th 
of July (Turner, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 235), and Mr. Brewster met with it on Anticosti towards 
the end of July (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxii. p. 368). To the Magdalen Islands it is a common 
summer visitant, according to Dr. Bishop (Auk, vi. p. 149). 
It doubtless nests іп Newfoundland and in Nova Scotia, a specimen from Halifax shot by 
Lieut. Wedderburn on the 95th of March, 1852, being in the Seebohm Collection, having been 
purchased from the Jardine Collection ; it is now in the British Museum. Dr. Mcllwraith says that, 
with the exception of Merula migratoria, this is the most common of the Thrushes which visit Southern 
Ontario and breed there, many passing further north to nest (B. Ontario, p. 407). In Manitoba it 
is an abundant summer resident, according to Mr. Thompson (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 633). 
Captain Blakiston writes (Ibis, 1863, p. 54):—“ A specimen from the Lower Saskatchewan, 
