LITTLE THRUSH. 
plumage of the American Throstles is no less 
variable than those of Europe, and that they all 
spring from a common stem : This conjecture 
derives force from the numerous analogies 
which this bird has to the Thrushes, in it's 
shape, in it's port, in it's propensity to migrate 
and to feed on berries, in the yellow colour of 
it's internal parts observed by Sloane, and in 
the speckles which appear on it's breast: but it 
seems the most nearly related to our Throstle 
and Red- Wing, and a comparison of the 
points of similarity is necessary to determine 
the species to which it belongs. 
44 This bird," pursues Buffo n, " is smaller 
than any of our Thrushes; as, in. general, are 
all the birds of America, if compared with 
their archetypes in the old continent. Like 
the Red- Wing, it does not sing : and it has 
fewer speckles than that species; and, there- 
fore, than any of the genus. Like the. Red- 
Wing, also, it's flesh is delicate. 
4 < So far the American Thrush resembles the 
Red-Win^ : but it has more numerous rela- 
tions to our Throstle; and, in my opinion,' 
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