LITTLE THRUSH. 
degrees farther south, it's winters are mild 
enough for their subsistence during that 
season.'* 
The Little Thrush, is the Turdus Minor 
of the Linnsean system: the Turdus Iliacus 
Carolinensis, of Brisson; and the Grivette 
d'Amerique, of BufFon. Klein calls it, erro- 
neously, Turdus Minimus; because the Gold- 
en-Crowned Thrush of Edwards is less- 
According to BufFon, who classes our Little 
Thrash among his Foreign Birds that are re- 
lated to the Throstles, " this bird occurs not 
only in Canada, but in Pennsylvania, Caro- 
lina, and as far as Jamaica: it spends only the 
summer in the northern provinces ; though, in 
the milder regions of the south, it resides the 
whole year. In Carolina, it haunts the 
thickest woods contiguous to the swamps ; 
but, in the hatter climate of Jamaica, it retires 
to the forests that cover the mountains. The 
specimens described or figured by naturalists 
differ in the colours of their feathers, of their 
bill, and of their legs; which would imply— 
if they all belong to one species- — that the 
plumage 
