SPE CIES 4. TUPD US SOLITARIUS. * 
HERMIT THRUSH. 
[Plate XLHL— Fig. 2.] 
Little Thrush, Catesby, i, 31. — Edwards, 296. — Brown Thrush, 
Arct. Zool. SSr, JVb. 199 . — Peale’s Museum, JVb. 3542. 
The dark solitary cane and myrtle swamps of the southern 
states are the favourite native haunts of this silent and recluse spe- 
cies, and the more deep and gloomy these are, the more certain 
we are to meet with this bird flitting among them. This is the 
species mentioned while treating of the Wood Thrush, as having 
been figured and described more than fifty years ago by Edwards, 
from a dried specimen sent him by my friend Mr. William 
Bartram, under the supposition that it was the Wood Thrush 
( Turdus melodus. ) It is however considerably less, very dif- 
ferently marked, and altogether destitute of the clear voice 
and musical powers of that charming minstrel. It also differs 
in remaining in the southern states during the whole year; 
whereas the Wood Thrush does not winter even in Georgia; 
nor arrives within the southern boundary of that state until 
some time in April. 
The Hermit Thrush is rarely seen in Pennsylvania, unless 
for a few weeks in spring and late in the fall, long after the 
Wood Thrush has left us, and when scarcely a summer bird re- 
mains in the woods. In both seasons it is mute, having only, in 
spring, an occasional squeak like that of a young stray chicken. 
* Turdus minor, Gmeiin, which name having the priority must be adopted. 
We add the following synonymes: — T. minor, Gm. Syst. i, p, 809. — Lath. 
Syn. Ill, p- 20. J^o. 5. — Mauvis de la Caroline, Buff. PI. Enl. 556, Jig. 2. Turdus 
Justus, Gmel. Syst. i, p. 817. — Lath. Syn. in, p. 28, JS'b. 16. 
