SPECIES 3. 
TUED US MEL OD US. * 
WOOD THRUSH. 
[Plate 11. — Fig. 1.] 
Bahtram, p. 290. — Peale’s Museum, JS ' o . 5264. 
This bird is represented on the plate of its natural size; and 
particular attention has been paid to render the figure a faithful 
likeness of the original. It measures eight inches in length, and 
thirteen from tip to tip of the expanded wings; the bill is an inch 
long, the upper mandible of a dusky brown, bent at the point, 
and slightly notched; the lower a flesh colour towards the base; 
the legs are long, and, as well as the claws, of a pale flesh colour, 
or almost transparent. The whole upper parts are of a brown 
fulvous colour brightening into reddish on the head, and inclin- 
ing to an olive on the rump and tail; chin white; throat and 
breast white, tinged with a light buff colour, and beautifully 
marked with pointed spots of black or dusky, running in chains 
from the sides of the mouth, and intersecting each other all over 
the breast to the belly, which, with the vent, is of a pure white; 
a narrow circle of white surrounds the eye, which is large, full, 
the pupil black, and the iris of a dark chocolate colour; the in- 
side of the mouth is yellow. The male and female of this species, 
as indeed of almost the whole genus of Thrushes, differ so little 
as scarcely to be distinguished from each other. It is called by 
some the Wood Robin, by others the Ground Robin, and by 
some of our American ornithologists Turdus minor, though, 
as will hereafter appear, improperly. The present name has 
been adopted from Mr. William Bartram, who seems to have 
• Turdus mustelinus, Gmelih, which name must be adopted:---We add the 
following synonymes: — T. mustelinus. Gmei,. Syst. i. p. 817. — Lath. Syn. HI, 
p. 28. — ^ViEiLL. OisdeVAm. Sept, pi. 62. — lawny Thrush, Arcl. Zoot. 11, p. 
337, No. 198. 
