GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 
the plumage, and in the mode of nestling, 
seem to point at a nature dlstin6t from that of 
our European Thrushes,*' 
This is the whole account published hj 
BufFon ; who takes no notice of the LinntEaii 
name, or any ather synonime. If we add to 
the concluding observations of Buffon, the dif» 
ference of this bird's size, compared with that 
of most other Thrushes, we may easily ex- 
cuse Linnseus, for rather making it a Mota- 
cilia, than, a Turdus ; though it is by no means 
necessary, with our enlarged information, to 
adopt the same error. 
