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WARBLER THRUSH. 

 (Tardus motacilla.) 



Tu. olimceo'fuscusjjascia per oculos, gula, pectoreque albis, ab- 

 domine rufo, corpore toto subhis fusco maculatis. 



Olive-brown Thrush, with a band through the eyes, the throat 

 and breast white ; the abdomen rufous, and the whole of the 

 lower parts of the body spotted with brown. 



Turdus motacilla. VieiL Ois. de VAmer, Sept, 2. 9. 



La Grive Noehequeue. Vieil, Ois. de VAmer. Sept, 2. ^,pl, 65, 



This very rare species of Thrash was first de- 

 scribed by Mons. Vieillot in his splendid work 

 on the North American Birds : the specimen there 

 figured and described was procured from the in- 

 terior of the United States : its beak is br£)wn 1 

 the top of its head, neck and body, wings and tail, 

 olive brown : from the beak, passing through the 

 eye, is a white streak, terminating in a point on 

 the occiput ; between the beak and eye it is bifur- 

 cated, having a dark brown spot on that part : the 

 throat, lower part of the neck and the breast, 

 white : the sides and belly reddish : the whole of ' 

 them sprinkled with dusky spots : legs yellowish ; 

 length five inches and a quarter. 



