REDWING THRUSH. 



183 



with the Tawny Thrush: beak bkck, with the 

 base of the under mandible flesh-colour: eyes 

 dark, surrounded with white. Inhabits the coun- 

 try to the north of Pensylvania, in which place 

 it only stays a week or ten days at a time in its 

 passage north in May, and south in September. 



REDWING THRUSH. 

 (Turdus iliacus.) 



Tu. griseo-^uscus, suhtus albidus maculis Jtiscis, alts subtus Jer^ 

 rugineisy superciliis albicantibus* 



Grey-brown Thrush, beneath whitish, with brown spots ; wings 

 beneath ferruginous; supercilia whitish. 



Turdus iliacus. Lin. Si/st. Nat. 1. 292. 3. — Lin, Faun, Suec. 

 218. — Gmel, Syst. Nat, 1. 808. — Briss, 2. 208. 3. t, 20, j: L 

 -^Turt, Brit. Faun, 1. 35. 63 — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 329. 7- 



Le Mauvis. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. SOg.—Buf. PI, Enl. 51. 



Redwing, or Wind Thrush. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 108. — Pen. 

 Arct. Zool, 2. 342. d. — Albin, Birds. I. 35. — Leivin. Brit, 

 Birds. 2. 59. — Bewick, Brit, Birds, 1. J 02. — Lath, Gen. Syn, 

 3. 22. 7. — Mont, Brit, Birds. 2. — Lath. Sup. 139. 7. 



Weight near two ounces and a half: length 

 eight inches and a half : beak dusky, yellowish at 

 the base of the upper mandible : irides dusky : 

 over the eye a whitish streak : prevailing colour 

 of the upper parts brown, lighter on the edges of 

 the quills and wing-coverts : breast and sides 

 varied with dusky lines: the sides of the body 

 and under the wings reddish orange : middle of 



