GOLDEN'-CROWNED THRUSHo 
Buffbn thus describes his Little Thrush of 
St. Domingo — '* This Thrush," says he^ 
in point of smallness, is like the American 
Thrush. It's head is ornamented with a sort 
of crown, or cap, of bright orange, verging 
on red. The specimen figured by Edwards, 
differs from our's," remarks BufFon, " in not 
being dappled under the belly. It was caught 
in November 1751, at sea, eight or ten leagues 
off the Island of St. Domingo; which led 
Edwards to suppose that it was one of those 
birds of passage which every year leave the 
Continent of North America on the approach 
of winter; and depart from the Cape of 
Florida, in quest of milder seasons. This con- 
jecture was verified. Bartram informed Ed- 
wards, that these birds arrived in Pennsylvania 
in the month of April, and remained there 
during the whole summer. He added, that 
the Female built it's nest in the ground, or 
Tather in heaps of dry leaves, where it formed 
a sort of excavation ; that it lined it with 
grass, and always chose the slope of a hill 
facing the South ; and, that it layed four or 
five eggs spotted with brown. Such diffe- 
rences in the colour of the eggs, in that of 
the 
