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week or two, and passes on to the north and to the high 

 mountainous districts to breed. It has no song, but a sharp 

 chuck. About the 20th of May I, met with numbers of them 

 in the Great Pine Swamp, near Pocano ; and on the 25th of 

 September in the same year, I shot several of them in the 

 neighbourhood of Mr Bartrarn's place. I have examined 

 many of these birds in spring, and also on their return in fall, 

 and found very little difference among them between the 

 male and female. In some specimens the wing-coverts were 

 brownish yellow; these appeared to be young birds. I have 

 no doubt but they breed in the northern high districts of the 

 United States; but I have not yet been able to discover their 

 nests. 



The tawny thrush is ten inches long, and twelve inches in 

 extent ; the whole upper parts are a uniform tawny brown ; 

 the lower parts, white ; sides of the breast and under the 

 wings, slightly tinged with ash ; chin, white ; throat, and 

 upper parts of the breast, cream coloured, and marked with 

 pointed spots of brown ; lores, pale ash or bluish white ; 

 cheeks, dusky brown ; tail, nearly even at the end, the shafts 

 of all, as well as those of the wing-quills, continued a little 

 beyond their webs ; bill, black above and at the point, below 



From these circumstances, the name of mustelimis, given by Wilson 

 to this species, is incorrect ; and Bonaparte has deservedly dedicated it 

 to its first describer, a name which ought now to be used in our systems. 

 Another bird has been also lost sight of in the alliance which exists 

 among those, and which will now rank as an addition to the northern 

 fauna, the Turdus parvus of Edwards, and confounded by Bonaparte 

 with the T. solitaria. From the observations of Dr Richardson and Mr 

 Swainson, in the second volume of the " Northern Zoology," there can 

 be little doubt of its being distinct from any of the others just men- 

 tioned, and will be distinguished by the more rufous tinge of the upper 

 parts. It was met by the Overland Expedition on the banks of the 

 Saskatchewan, where it is migratory in summer, and appears as nearly 

 allied to the others in its habits as it is in its external appearance. It 

 spreads, no doubt, over the other parts of North America, getting more 

 abundant, perhaps, towards the south. Mr Swainson has received it 

 from Georgia, and remarks that the rufous tinge of the plumage is much 

 clearer and more intense in the southern specimens. — Ed. 



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