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BROWNISH THRUSH. 

 (Tardus Fuscescens.) 



Tu. mustelinus f genis nigricante-Jiiscis, gula alba,jiigulo peciore" 



que Jiavicantibus fusco maculatis, ventre albo, remigibus rectri- 



cibusque acuminntis. 

 Tawny Thrush, with the cheeks dusky brown ; the throat white ; 



jugulum and breast yellow, spotted with brown; belly white? 



quills and tail-feathers pointed at their tips. 

 Tardus mustelinus. Wils, Amer. Orn. 5. 98. 

 Tawny Thrush. Wils, Amer, Orn, 5. gS, pi. 43,Jl 3. 



This has a very great affinity to the preceding, 

 but is nevertheless very distinct, as the descriptions 

 and figures demonstrate ; and it is not a little 

 surprising that Wilson in his American Ornitho- 

 logy should increase the confusion by giving a 

 name that was applied by Pennant to the preced- 

 ing, when he was confident this bird was a distinct 

 species, as he acquaints us in the last paragraph of 

 his description. 



It is in length ten inches, and in expanse on© 

 foot: the whole of the upper parts of the body 

 are of an uniform tawny brown, the under white : 

 the sides of the head and under the wings slightly 

 ti^iged with cinereous : chin white : throat and 

 upper parts of the breast cream-coloured, and 

 marked with pointed brown spots : lores blueish 

 white : cheeks dusky brown : tail nearly even at 

 the end: shafts of the feathers and of the quills 

 reaching beyond their webs, in which it agrees 



