SPECIES 9. TUBE US MIGE,^TOEIUS. 
ROBIN. 
[Plate II. — Fig. 3.] 
Linn. Syst. i, p. 292, 6. — Turdus Canadensis, Briss. ii, p. 225, 
9. — La Litorne de Canada,'BvFF. iu,p. 307. — Grivede Cana- 
da, PL Enl. 556, 1. — Fieldfare of Carolina, Cat. Car. 1, 29. 
— Red-breasted Thrush, £rct, Zool. n, J^To, J96.- — Lath. Syn. 
11 , p. 26. — Bartram, p. 290. — Pealk’s Museum, J\ro. 5278. 
This well known bird, being familiar to almost every body, 
will require but a short description. It measures nine inches 
and a half in length; the bill is strong, an inch long, and of a 
full yellow, though sometimes black, or dusky near the tip of the 
upper mandible; the head, back of the neck and tail is black; 
the back and rump an ash colour; the wings are black edged 
with light ash; the inner tips of the two exterior tail feathers 
are white; three small spots of white border the eye; the throat 
and upper part of the breast is black, the former streaked with 
white; the whole of the rest of the breast, down as far as the 
thighs, is of a dark orange; belly and vent white, slightly 
waved with dusky ash; legs dark brown; claws black and strong. 
The colours of the female are more of the light ash, less deep- 
ened with black; and the orange on the breast is much paler, 
and more broadly skirted with white. The name of this bird 
bespeaks him a bird of passage, as are all the different species 
of Thrushes we have; but the one we are now describing being 
more unsettled, and continually roving about from one region 
to another, during fall and winter, seems particularly entitled 
to the appellation. Scarce a winter passes but innumerable thou- 
sands of them are seen in the lower parts of the whole Atlantic 
