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U. S. P. E. REXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
TURDUS MUSTELINUS, Gmelin. 
Wood Thrush. 
Turdus mustelinus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 817.— Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 331.— Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept 
II, 1807, 6 ; pi. lxii.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 343.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. 1, 1832, 372 : V, 1839, 
446 ; pi. 73.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 24 ; pi. 144.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 270. 
Merula mustelina, Rich. List, 1837. 
Turdus mclodus, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 35 ; pi. ii. 
Tawny thrush, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 337. 
Sp. Ch. — Above clear cinnamon brown, on the top of the head becoming more rufous, on the rump and tail olivaceous. The 
under parts are clear white, sometimes tinged with buff on the breast or anteriorly, and thickly marked beneath, except on the 
chin and throat and about the vent and tail coverts, with sub-triangular, sharply defined spots of blackish. The sides of the 
head are dark brown, streaked with white, and there is also a maxillary series of streaks on each side of the throat, the central 
portion of which sometimes has indications of small spots. Length, 8.10 inches; wing, 4.25 ; tail, 3.05 ; tarsus, 1.26. 
Hub. — Eastern United States to Missouri river ; south to Guatemala 
This species is quite stout in form ; the tail is even or very slightly rounded laterally ; the 
feathers acuminate. The third and fourth quills are longest ; the second rather longer than 
the fifth. The legs are yellow ; the bill brown, but yellow at the base beneath. 
A female specimen has nearly the whole lower parts tinged faintly with buff. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by- 
Length. 
Stretch 
of U'lllg> 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1569 
1570 
7286 
8388 
4650 
7947 
3 
9 
May 28,1844 
do 
8.08 
8.08 
13.43 
13.25 
4.25 
4.43 
Carlisle, Pa 
Roekport, Ohio 
Independence, Mo. 
••••» dc ' 
do 
June 22, 1857 
.do 
Q 
o 
96 
93 
7.75 
12.50 
4.50 
Iris brown, bill 
black, feet gray. 
May 3,1855 
Col. A. Vaughan 
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TURDUS PALLASII, Cabanis. 
Hermit Thrush. 
Tardus pallasii, Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1847, I, i, 205.— Ib. Museum Heineanum, 1850-1, 5. 
Turdus solitarius, Wilson, Am. Orn. V, 1812, 95, (not of Linnaeus. The figure quoted pi. xliii, fig. 2, belongs to 
T. swainsonii.)— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 29 ; pi. 146.— Bonaparte, 
List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. Av. 1850, 270.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1844, 191. 
Merula solitaria, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 184. (The figure pi. xxxv, probably belongs to T. swainsonii.) — 
Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 7 ; pi. Ixiii, (in part with swainsonii.) 
Turdus minor, Bon, Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72.— Ib. Synopsis, 1828, 75.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1830, 346.— Aud. 
Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 303 : V, 445 ; pi. 58. 
Turdus guttatus, Cabanis, Tschudi Fauna Peruana, 1844, 6, 187, (not Muscicapa guttata, Pall.) 
? Turdus minimus, Seligmann, Samml. II, 177 ; pi. lxii. 
Sp. Ch. — Fourth quill longest ; third and fourth a little shorter ; second about equal to the sixth ; about .30 of an inch shorter 
than the longest. Tail slightly emarginate. Above light olive brown, with a scarcely perceptible shade of reddish, passing, 
however, into decided rufous on the rump, upper tail coverts, and tail, and to a less degree on the outer surface of the wings. 
Beneath white, with a scarcely appreciable shade of pale buff across the fore part of the breast, and sometimes on the throat; 
the sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with rather sharply defined subtriangular spots oi dark olive brown ; the 
sides of the breast with paler and less distinct spots of the same. Sides of the body under the wings of a paler shade than the 
back. A whitish ring round the eye ; ear coverts very obscurely streaked with paler. Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 3.84 ; tail, 
3.25; tarsus, 1.16; No. 2092. 
I lab. — Eastern North America to the Mississippi river. 
