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TURDUS WILSOXII. 
former, with which it never associates, it is impossip 
not to conclude it to be a distinct and separate spe^*®’ 
however near it may approach to that of the form®'^' 
Its food, and the country it inhabits, for half the 
being- the same, neither could have produced t'bf^ 
differences ; and we must believe it to be now, what ' 
ever has, and ever will be, a distinct connecting 
in the great chain of this part of animated nature ! 
the sublime reasoning of certain theoretical 
philosophers to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Leng^tli of the hermit thrush, seven inches; 
ten inches and a Iialf; upper parts, plain deep ol*'* 
brown ; lower, dull white ; upper part of the bre-^ 
and throat, dull cream colour, deepest where 
plumage falls over the shoulders of the wing, 
marked ndth hu-ge dark brown pointed spots ; 
feathers, aud line over the eye, cream, the forp’*' 
mottled with olive ; edges of the wings, lighter, t'Pt' 
dusky ; tail coverts aud tail, inclining to a reddish 
colour. In the wood thrush, these parts incline 
greenish olive. Tail, slightly forked ; legs, dusky ; 
black above and at the tip, whitish below ; iris, bb*'^^' 
and very full ; chin, whitish. 
The female differs very little,— chiefly in beW 
generally darker in the tints, and having the spots 
the breast larger and more dusky. 
95. TUJtDUS WILSONXIf BONAP. TURDUS MUSTELINUS, 
WILSOS’S THRUSH. TAWNY THRUSH. 
WILSON, PLATE XLHI. Fia. HI. 
Tms species makes its appearance in Pennsyk'*”^, 
from the south, rcg-ularly about the beginning of ||i 
stays with ns a week or two, and passes on to the 
and to the high mount .li nous districts to breed. I* 
no song, hut a sharp chuck. About the 20th of 
I met with uumbers of them in the Great Pine 
near Pocano ; and on the 25th of September, in the spy 
year, I shot several of them in the neio-hboiirhooo 
Mr Bartram’s place. I have examined many ot 
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