34 TAWNY THRUSH. 
black above and at the tip, whitish below ; iris black and very full ; chin 
whitish. 
The female differs very little, chiefly in being generally darker in the 
tints, and having the spots on the breast larger and more dusky. 
Species V. TUEDUS MUSTELINUS. 
TAWNY THRUSH. 
[Plate XLIII. Fig. 3.] 
This species makes its appearance in Pennsylvania from the south 
regularly about the beginning of May, stays with us a week or two, and 
passes on to the north and to the high mountainous districts to breed. 
It has no song, but a sharp chuck. About the twentieth of May I met 
with numbers of them in the great Pine swamp, near Pocano ; and on 
the twenty-fifth of September, in the same year, I shot several of them 
in the neighborhood of Mr. Bartram's place. I have examined many 
of these birds in spring, and also on their return in fall, and found very 
little difference among them between the male and female. In some 
specimens the wing coverts were brownish yellow ; these appeared to be 
young birds. I have no doubt but they breed in the northern high 
districts of the United States ; but I have not yet been able to discover 
their nests. 
The Tawny Thrush is ten inches long, and twelve inches in extent ; 
the whole upper parts are a uniform tawny brown ; the lower parts 
white ; sides of the breast and under the wings slightly tinged with ash ; 
chin white; throat and upper parts of the breast cream colored, and 
marked with pointed spots of brown ; lores pale ash, or bluish white ; 
cheeks dusky brown ; tail nearly even at the end, the shafts of all, as 
well as those of the wing quills, continued a little beyond their webs ; 
bill black above and at the point, below at the base flesh colored; 
corners of the mouth yellow ; eye large and dark, surrounded with a 
white ring ; legs long, slender and pale brown. 
Though I have given this bird the same name that Mr. Pennant has 
applied to one of our Thrushes, it must not be considered as the same ; 
the bird which he has denominated the Tawny Thrush being evidently 
from its size, markings, &c. 
No description of the bird here figured, has, to my knowledge, ap- 
peared in any former publication.* 
* As Wilson supposed, this bird had not been previously described ; he has how- 
ever created some confusion by giving to it the name of an old species. That name 
