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TURDUS SOLITARIUS. 
most effectual, and aoreeable method to remove th^l 
cause. What could the wisest man have done better' 
Call it reason, or instinct, it Js the same that a sensible 
man would have done in this case. 
“ After tlie same manner this bird reasoned wilj 
respect to the wasps. lie found, by experience 
observation, that the fir.st he attempted to swallow hi't* 
his throat, and gave him extreme pain ; and, up®® 
examination, observed tliat the extremity of the abd^ 
men was armed « ith a poisonous stiug ; and, after tbi* 
discovery, never attempted to swallow a wasp until b* 
first pinched his abdomen to the extremity, forcing e®^ 
the sting, with tlie rc<;eptacle of poison.” ° 
It is certainly a circumstance highly honourable i® 
the character ot birds, and corroborative of the fo*^ 
going sentiments, that those who have paid the niof* 
minute attention to their manners, are uniformly the'® 
advocates and admirers. “ He must,” said a gentleme® 
to me the other day, when speaking of another persO®’ 
— “ He must be a good man ; for those who have lo®-'' 
know'n him, and are most intimate with him, resp®®* 
him greatly, and alw ays speak well of him.” 
94 . TUItDUS SOLITARIUS, WILSON. _ TCiiDCS jr/XOa, GMEl'®' 
HERMIT THRUSH. 
WILSON, PL.iTE XLIII. FIG. II. 
The dark solitary cane and invrtle swamps of 
southern States are the favourite native haunts of tl"? 
silent and recluse species ; and the more deep ®® 
gloomy these are, the more certain we are to nie® 
w'ith this bird flitting among them. This is the spec'*^ 
mentioned, while treating of the wood thrush, as ha''i®s 
been ligiinnl and described, more than fifty years Hr'*’ 
by Edwards, from a dried specimen sent him by 
friend Mr William Bartram, under the supposition tb«' 
it was the wood thrush, {turdus melodus.) It is, ho"'' 
ever, considerably less, very diftcrently marked, a®® 
