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spring-, and also on their return in fall, and 
>ttal little difference among them between the 
tv-er^ ‘‘■”<1 female. In some specimens the wing-coverts 
i^''<>"'nish yellow ; those appeared to be young 
l,i, .*• , I have no doubt but they breed in the northern 
yeti of the United States; but I have not 
,^j>een able to discover their nests. 
■Ucl * thrush is ten inches long-, and twelve 
W *** *** extent ; the whole upper parts are a uniform 
Wi. i’row-n ; the low'cr parts, white ; sides of the 
•^iui under the w ings, slightly tinged with ash ; 
"bite; throat, and upper pai-ts of the breast, 
Wo *** *^eloured, and marked with pointed spots of 
Wo" ** ’ W*’es, pale ash, or bluish white ; cheeks, dusky 
; tail, nearly even at the end, the shafts of all, 
Wv as tliose of the wing quills, continued a little 
^yond tbeir webs ; bill, black above and at the point, 
yell ‘‘t the base, flesh coloured ; corners of the mouth, 
i eye, large aud dark, sun-ouuded with a white 
,fi ! legs, long, slcndci-, and pale brown. 
^Ir I have given this bird the same name that 
ao(. I ®*niant has applied to one of our thrushes, it must 
do, -Considered as the same ; the bird which he has 
^ize ''"''’‘fefl the tawny thrush being evidently, from its 
®*arkings, &c. the wood thrush, already described. 
*PDp^ description of this bird has, to my knowledge, 
^Ced in any former publication. 
GENUS XXI.— SYLVIA, Latoam. 
SCBGENCS I. —SYLVIA. 
AUSOCAFILLA, BONAPARTE T17BDUS ACROCAFILLaS, 
■WILSON. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 
WILSON, PLATE XIV. FIG. II. 
the epithet golden-crowned is not very suit- 
feta 
• ^^I-VIA 
, Tn, 
bp bird, — that part of the head being rather of 
orange, — yet, to avoid confusion, I have 
'^'“ed it. ’=>’!> 
