of the United States. 
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branches of trees, or pick off from the leaves ; seek for worms 
on the ground ; sometimes eat berries. Many sing delight- 
fully. 
Spread all over the globe. By some species united to 
Turdus, Muscicapa and Saxicola, and, by the subgenus Dac- 
nis, connected with Icterus (Family Gregarii), by Regulus to 
Parus (Family iEgithali), by Troglodytes to Myiothera and 
even Certhia (Family Tenuirostres), by Anthus to Alauda 
(Passerini), to which Family it is also connected by some 
slender-billed Tanagra?. Some species are so closely allied 
to Vireo, Muscicapa, Turdus, Saxicola, &lc. that they might 
be placed with almost equal propriety in either. 
SUBGENUS I. SYLVIA. 
Upper mandible slightly curved and notched near the tip. 
102. Sylvia aurocapilla, Nob. Olivaceous ; crown brownish- 
orange, margined each side by a black line ; beneath white, 
breast spotted with blackish. 
Golden-crowned Thrush , Turdus aurocapillus , Wils. Am. 
Orn. ii. p. 88. pi. 14. fig. 2 . Motacilla aurocapilla , L. 
Inhabits all the United States during summer, in woods : 
winters in Mexico and the West Indies : breeds in Pennsyl- 
vania : rather common. 
103. Sylvia noveboracensis, Lath. Olive-brown ; beneath and 
line over the eye yellowish-white ; breast spotted with black- 
ish. 
Water Thrush , Turdus aquaticus , Wils. Am. Orn. iii.p. 66 . 
pi. 23 . fig. 5 . 
Inhabits ail parts of the United States during summer : 
common in Louisiana, Tennessee, &c. ; rather rare in Penn- 
sylvania and New-Jersey, where it appears but a few days in 
May, on its way north, and on its return in August. 
104. Sylvia coron at a, Lath. Slate, streaked with black; 
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