-LITTLE THRUSH. 
1 more decisive ones. It has beards round the 
bill; a sort of yellowish plate on the breast; 
it readily settles, and remains, in a country 
which affords it subsistence; and it's cry is 
like the winter notes of the Throstle, and 
therefore unpleasant; as, generally, are the 
cries of all birds that live in wild countries, 
inhabited by savages. Besides, the Throstle, 
and not the Red- Wing, is found in Sweden; 
whence it could easily migrate into America. 
I" This Throstle arrives in Pennsylvania in 
the month of May: it continues there the 
whole of the summer; during which time, 
it hatches and raises it's young. Catesby tells 
us, that but few of these Throstles are seen in 
i Carolina : whether, because a part only settle, 
of what arrives ; or that, as we have already 
observed, they conceal themselves in the woods. 
They subsist on the berries of the Holly, of 
the White-Thorn, &c. In the specimens de- 
scribed by Sloane, the nostrils were wider, 
and the feet longer, than in those described by 
Catesby, and by Brisson. Nor was their plu- 
mage the same: and, if these differences were 
(constant," concludes Bu.ffbij, in which we 
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