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ROBIN. 



TUliDUS MIGEATOEIUS. 

 [Plate II.— Fig. 2.] 



Linn. Syst, I, p. 292, Q.—Turdus Canadensis, Briss. II, p. 225, 9.— La Litarne de Cana- 

 da, Buff. Ill, p. 307.— Grive du Canada, PL Enl. 556, I.— Fieldfare of Carolina, Cat. 

 Car. I, 29.— Red-breasted Thrush, Arct. Zool. II, No. 196.— Lath. Syn. Ill, p. 26.— 

 Bartram,/. 290. — Peale's Museum, JVo. 5278. 



THIS well known bird, being familiar to almost every body, 

 will require but a short description. It measures nine inches and 

 a half in length ; the bill is strong, an inch long, and of a full yel- 

 low, tho sometimes black, or dusky near the tip of the upper man- 

 dible; the head, back of the neck and tail is black; the back and 

 rump an ash color; the wings are black edged with light ash; the 

 inner tips of the two exterior tail feathers are white; three small 

 spots of white border the eye; the throat and upper part of the 

 breast is black, the former streaked with white; the whole of the rest 

 of the breast, down as far as the thighs, is of a dark orange; belly 

 and vent while, slightly waved with dusky ash; legs dark brown; 

 claws black and strong. The colors of the female are more of the 

 light ash, less deepened with black; and the orange on the breast 

 is much paler, and more broadly skirted with white. The name 

 of this bird bespeaks him a bird of passage, as are all the different 

 species of Thrushes we have ; but the one we are now describing 

 being more unsettled, and continually roving about from one region 

 to another, during fall and winter, seems particularly entitled to the 

 appellation. Scarce a winter passes but innumerable thousands of 

 them are seen in the lower parts of the whole Atlantic states, from 

 New Hampshire to Carolina, particularly in the neighbourhood of 



