162 THRUSH. 



Le Moqueur Francois, Buf. iii. 323. PL enl. 645. 



Fox-coloured Thrush, Cat. Car. i. pi. 28. Arct. Zool. No. 195. Bartr. Trav. p. 28S. 



Gent. Blag. v. xxii. pi. in p. 277. 

 Ferruginous Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 39. Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 14. f. 1. Shaw's Zool. x. 190. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill blackish ; irides yellow ; head 

 and upper parts of the body rufous, the under dirty white, marked 

 with brown spots ; middle of the belly plain ; second and greater 

 wing coverts tipped with white, making a double white bar on the 

 wing; quills brown, with rufous margins; tail rather cuneiform, 

 the two middle feathers five inches, the exterior three inches and 

 three quarters, two or three of the outer ones pale at the ends. 



Male and female much alike, but the white on the wing more 

 narrow, and the spots on the breast smaller in the latter. 



Inhabits various parts of America : remains in Carolina and Vir- 

 ginia the whole year. It feeds chiefly on the Bird Cherry,* and has 

 a variety of notes, but does not sing near so well, nor so sweetly as 

 the Mimic Thrush ; is called in Virginia the French Mocking Bird ; 

 at the approach of any one it makes a hissing noise. Mr. Abbot 

 informs me, that those in the neighbourhood of Georgia, have the 

 under parts yellow, and are called Threshers, as well as French 

 Mocking Birds ; that they build in bushes, forming a nest of sticks, 

 stalks of wood, hay, and feathers ; the eggs pale brown, or brownish 

 white, speckled all over with small dull yellow spots. 



218 —YELLOW-BACKED THRUSH. 



Turdus striatus, Ind. Orn. i. 332. Gm. Lin. i. 817. 

 Grive premiere, Ferm. Surin. ii. 187. 

 Yellow-backed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 29. 



SIZE of a Lark. Plumage mixed yellow and grey, except down 

 the ridge of the back, which has a yellow stripe. 

 Inhabits Surinam. 



* Cerasus Padus. 



