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SPECIES 7. TURD US Ji UROCAPILL US. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 
[Plate XIV.— Fig. 2.] 
Edw. 252. — Lath, iii, 21. — La figuier a tete d’or, Briss. hi, 504. 
—La Crrivelette de St. Domingue, Buff, hi, 317. PI. EnL 398, 
—Jirct. Zool. p. 339, .V* 9. 203. — Turdus minimus, vertice Aurio, 
the least Golden-crown Thrush, Bartram, p. 290.— Peale’s 
Museum, JVo. 7122. 
Though the epithet golden-crowned, is not very suitable 
for this bird, that part of the head being rather of a brownish 
orange; yet, to avoid confusion, I have retained it. 
This is also a migratory species, arriving in Pennsylvania late 
in April, and leaving us again late in September. It is altogeth- 
er an inhabitant of the woods, runs along the ground like a lark, 
and even along the horizontal branches, frequently moving its 
tail in the manner of the Wagtails. It has no song; but a shrill, 
energetic twitter, formed by the rapid reiteration of two notes, 
peche, peche,peche, for a quarter of a minute at a time. It builds 
a snug, somewhat singular nest, on the ground, in the woods, 
generally on a declivity facing the south. This is formed of 
leaves and dry grass, and lined with hair. Though sunk below 
the surface, it is arched over, and only a small hole left for 
entrance; the eggs are four, sometimes five, white, irregularly 
spotted with reddish brown, chiefly near the great end. When 
alarmed it escapes from the nest with great silence and rapidity, 
running along the ground like a mouse, as if afraid to tread too 
heavily on the leaves; if you stop to examine its nest, it also 
stops, droops its wings, flutters and tumbles along, as if hardly 
able to crawl, looking back now and then to see whether you 
are taking notice of it If you slowly follow, it leads you fifty 
