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TAWNY THRUSH. 



unlike those of the former, with which it never associates, it 

 is impossible not to conclude it to be a distinct and separate 

 species, however near it may approach to that of the former. 

 Its food, and the country it inhabits for half the year, being 

 the same, neither could have produced those differences ; and 

 we must believe it to be now, what it ever has been, and ever 

 will be, a distinct connecting link in the great chain of this 

 part of animated nature ; all the sublime reasoning of certain 

 theoretical closet philosophers to the contrary notwithstanding. 



Length of the hermit thrush, seven inches ; extent, ten 

 inches and a 'half ; upper parts, plain deep olive brown ; 

 lower, dull white ; upper part of the breast and throat, dull 

 cream colour, deepest where the plumage falls over the 

 shoulders of the wing, and marked with large dark brown 

 pointed spots; ear-feathers, and line over the eye, cream, the 

 former mottled with olive ; edges of the wings, lighter ; tips, 

 dusky ; tail-coverts and tail, inclining to a reddish fox colour. 

 In the wood thrush, these parts incline to greenish olive. 

 Tail, slightly forked; legs, dusky; bill, black above and at 

 the tip, whitish below ; iris, black and very full ; chin, whitish. 



The female differs very little, — chiefly in being generally 

 darker in the tints, and having the spots on the breast larger 

 and more dusky. 



TAWNY THRUSH. (Turdus mustelinus.) 



PLATE XLIII.— Fig. 3. 



Pcale's Museum, No. 5570. 



TURDUS WILSONII.— Bonaparte.* 



Turdus "Wilsonii, Bonap. Synop. p. 76.— Merula "Wilsonii, North. Zool. ii. p. 183. 



This species makes its appearance in Pennsylvania from the 

 south regularly about the beginning of May, stays with us a 



* The wood thrush of VoL I., the hermit thrush, and our present 

 species, have so much similarity to each other, that they have heen con- 

 fused together, and their synonyms often misquoted hy different authors. 



