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TAWNY THRUSH. 

 TUEDUS MUSTELmUS, 

 [Plate XLHI.— Fig. 3.] 



Pe ale's Museum, No, 5570. 



THIS species makes its appearance in Pennsylvania from the 

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

 or two, and passes on to the north and to the high mountainous dis- 

 tricts to breed. It has no song, but a sharp chuck. About the 

 twentieth of May I met with numbers of them in the Great Pine 

 swamp, near Pocano ; and on the twenty-fifth of September, in the 

 same year, I shot several of them in the neighbourhood of Mr. Bar- 

 tramps 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 colored, 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 at the base flesh colored ; corners of the mouth yel- 

 low; eye large and dark, surrounded with a white ring; legs long, 

 slender and pale brown. 



