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TURDUS MIGRATORIUS. 
92. W.SOO'SJf/GJJ.irOjr/ra, LINN.EUS AND WILSON- THE KOSH'' 
WILSOX, PLATE II. FlC. II, 
This well known bird, being familiar to almost evf'f 
body, will require but a short description. It measut** 
nine inches and a half in length ; the bill is .strong, ^ 
inch long, and of a full yellow, though sometimes hTa‘^' 
or dusky near the tip of the upper mandible ; the hei>“' 
back of the neck, and tail, is black ; the back and riifl'f 
an ash colour ; the wings are black, edged with Ik'l' 
ash j the inner tips of the two exterior tail feathet^ 
are white ; three small spots of white border the eV^' 
the throat and upper part of the breast is black, t**/ 
former streaked with u'hite ; the whole of the rest ^ 
the breast, down as far as the thighs, is of a ds'"' 
orange; belly and vent, white, slightly waved n''" 
dusky ash ; legs, dark brown ; claws, black and stro*’?’ 
The name of this bird bespeaks him a bird of passa?^! 
as are all the different species of thrushes wo bat^,' 
but the one wo are now describing being more unsettk“' 
and continually roving .about from one region to anotb®'^' 
during fall and winter, seems particularly entitled ^ 
the ajtpellation. Scarce a winter passes hut iafl*"! 
merable thousands of them are seen in the lower pa*"^ 
of the whole Atlantic States, from Xcw Hampshire 
Carolina, particularly in the neighbourhood of 
towns ; and, from the circumstance of their leavieft 
during that season, the country to the northwest * 
the great ranp of the Alleghany, from Marykand no/t^ 
ward. It would appear, that they not only migrate 
north to south, but from west to east, to avoid the defP 
snows that generally prevail on these high renons *** 
at least four months in the year. ° 
The robin hnilds his nest, often on an apple 
plasters it m the inside with mud, and lavs five egg*^ 
a beautiful sea green. The colours of the female 
more of the light ash, less deepened with black ; »>]“ 
the orange on the breast is much paler, and more broad') 
