fOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 
This bird is the Motacilla Aurocapiila, of 
the Linnsean system ; BufFon's Little Thrush 
of St. Domingo; the Turdus Minimus, Ver- 
tice Aureo, of Bartram ; and the Golden- 
Crowned Thrush, of Edwards, and of Pennant. 
Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton, in his late valuable 
Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsyl- 
vania, observes that this is very properly 
considered as a Turdus, or Thrush, both by 
Edwards, and by Pennant:" consequently, 
it is not strictly a Motacilla, 
For the excellent figure of this Thrush we 
are indebted to Edwards, by whom it appears 
to have been first drawn and described. That 
admirable ornithologist informs us, that the 
individual bird represented " was taken at sea^ 
in November 1751, by the late Thomas Stack, 
M. D. and F. R. S. in his voyage to Jamaica, 
as the ship lay becalmed, about eight or ten 
leagues distant from Hispaniola," He be- 
lieves, that it had never before been figured or 
described; 
