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man, who stands bellowing, with the lungs of a Stentor, under 

 the shade of the same tree ; so much will habit reconcile even 

 birds to the roar of the city, and to sounds and noises that, in 

 other circumstances, would put a whole grove of them to flight. 

 These birds are several years in receiving their complete 

 plumage. Sometimes the whole tail of a male individual in 

 spring is yellow, sometimes only the two middle feathers are 

 black, and frequently the black on the back is skirted with 

 orange, and the tail tipt with the same colour. Three years, I 

 have reason to believe, are necessary to fix the full tint of the 

 plumage, and then the male bird appears as already described. 



WOOD THKUSH. (Turdus melodus.) 



Plate II.— Fig. 1. 

 Bartram, p. 290. — Peale's Museum, No. 5264. 



TURD US MUSTELINUS. — Gmelin. 



Turdus mustelinus, Gm. Linn. ii. 817, No. ol.—Bonap. Synop. p. 75. — Penn. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. p. 337.— The Wood Thrush, Aud. p. 372. 



This bird is represented on the plate of its natural size, 

 and particular attention has been paid to render the figure a 

 faithful likeness of the original. It measures eight inches in 

 length, and thirteen from tip to tip of the expanded wings ; 

 the bill is an inch long; the upper mandible, of a dusky brown, 

 bent at the point, and slightly notched ; the lower, a flesh 

 colour towards the base ; the legs are long, and, as well as the 

 claws, of a pale flesh colour, or almost transparent. The whole 

 upper parts are of a brown fulvous colour, brightening into 

 reddish on the head, and inclining to an olive on the rump 

 and tail ; chin, white ; throat and breast, white, tinged with a 

 light buff colour, and beautifully marked with pointed spots of 

 black or dusky, running in chains from the sides of the mouth, 

 and intersecting each other all over the breast to the belly, 

 which, with the vent, is of a pure white ; a narrow circle of 

 white surrounds the eye, which is large, full, the pupil black, 



