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WOOD THRUSH. 



This very much resembles the following species, 

 which Wilson thinks was intended by Pennant for 

 this bird; but the figure in Vieillot of T. mustelinus 

 does not agree with Wilson's figure or description of 

 the Wood, and yet agrees very well with Pennant's 

 description of the Tawny Thrush. This species 

 is eight inches in length and thirteen in width : 

 its beak is dusky brown ; the lower mandible 

 flesh-coloured at the base : the whole of the upper 

 parts of the body fulvous brown, brightest on the, 

 head, and inclining to olive on the rump and tail : 

 chin white : throat and breast white, tinged with 

 buff, and sprinkled all over with dusky spots : belly 

 and vent pure white ; eyes surrounded with a 

 white circle : irides chocolate brown : legs and 

 claws flesh-colour : both sexes are nearly alike. 



Inhabits the whole of North America, from 

 Hudson's Bay to the peninsula of Florida: it 

 makes its appearance in Pensylvania about the 

 middle of April, and departs in October: its song 

 is uttered every morning and evening during the 

 months of May and June, and is greatly admired ; 

 but during the day it is silent: its favourite haunts 

 are thick shaded hollows by the sides of rivulets 

 or brooks : its nest is often placed in an alder 

 bush; it is made of withered beech leaves with 

 layers of dry grass mixed with mud, and neatly 

 smoothed ; it is lined within by dry fibrous roots : 

 its eggs are four or five in number, and are of an 

 uniform light blue. 



