TAWNY THRUSH. 
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unlike those of the former, with which it never associates, it is 
impossible not to conclude it to be a distinct and separate 
species, however near it may approach to that of the former. 
Its food, and the country it inhabits, for half the year, being 
the same, neither could have produced those differences ; and 
we must believe it to be now, what it ever has been, and ever 
will be, a distinct connecting link in the great chain of this part 
of animated nature ; all the sublime reasoning of certain 
theoretical closet philosophers to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Length of the Hermit Thrush, seven inches ; extent, ten 
inches and a half ; upper parts, plain deep olive brown ; lower, 
dull white ; upper part of the breast and throat, dull cream 
colour, deepest where the plumage falls over the shoulders of 
the wing, and marked with large dark brown pointed spots ; 
ear-feathers, and line over the eye, cream, the former mottled 
with olive ; edges of the wings, lighter ; tips, dusky ; tail- 
coverts and tail, inclining to a reddish fox colour. In the 
Wood Thrush, these parts incline to greenish olive. Tail, 
slightly forked ; legs, dusky ; bill, black above and at the tip, 
whitish below ; iris, black, and very full ; chin, whitish. 
The female differs very little, — chiefly in being generally 
darker in the tints, and having the spots on the breast larger 
and more dusky. 
TAWNY THRUSH TURDUS MUSTELINUS. 
Plate XLIII. Fig. 3. 
Peale’s Museum , No. 5570. 
TURD US WILSONII. — Bonaparte. * 
Tardus Wilsonii, JBonap. Synop. p. 76. — Merida Wilsonii, North. Zool. ii. p. 183. 
This species makes its appearance in Pennsylvania from 
the south regularly about the beginning of May, stays with 
* The Wood Thrush of Vol. I. the Hermit Thrush, and our present 
species, have so much similarity to each other, that they have been confused 
together, and their synonyms often misquoted by different authors. From 
