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TAWNY THRUSH. 
us a week or two, and passes on to the north and to the high 
mountainous districts to breed. It has no song, but a sharp 
chuck. About the 20th of May I met with numbers of them 
in the Great Pine swamp, near Pocano ; and on the 25th of 
September, in the same year, I shot several of them in the 
neighbourhood of Mr Bartram’s place. I have examined many 
of these birds in spring, and also on their return in fall, and 
found very little difference among them between the male and 
female. In some specimens the wing-coverts were brownish 
yellow ; these appeared to be young birds. I have no doubt 
but they breed in the northern high districts of the United 
States ; but I have not yet been able to discover their nests. 
The Tawny Thrush is ten inches long, and twelve inches 
in extent ; the whole upper parts are a uniform tawny brown ; 
the lower parts, white ; sides of the breast, and under the 
wings, slightly tinged with ash ; chin, white ; throat, and 
upper parts of the breast, cream coloured, and marked with 
pointed spots of brown ; lores, pale ash, or bluish white ; 
cheeks, dusky brown ; tail, nearly even at the end, the shafts 
of all, as well as those of the wing-quills, continued a little 
beyond their webs ; bill, black above and at the point, below 
at the base, flesh coloured ; corners of the mouth, yellow ; 
these circumstances, the name of mustelinus, given by Wilson to this species, is 
incorrect ; and Bonaparte has deservedly dedicated it to its first describ'er* a 
name which ought now to be used in our systems. Another bird has been also 
lost sight of, in the alliance w T hich exists among those, and which will now 
rank as an addition to the Northern Fauna, the Turdus parvus of Edwards, and 
confounded by Bonaparte with the T. solitaria. From the observations of Dr 
Richardson and Mr Svvainson, in the second volume of the Northern Zoology , 
there can be little doubt of its being distinct from any of the others just 
mentioned, and will be distinguished by the more rufous tinge of the upper parts. 
It was met by the Overland Expedition on the banks of the Saskatchewan, 
where it is migratory in summer, and appears as nearly allied to the others in 
its habits, as it is in its external appearance. It spreads, no doubt, over the 
other parts of North America, getting more abundant, perhaps, towards the 
south. Mr Swainson has received it from Georgia, and remarks that the 
rufous tinge of the plumage is much clearer and more intense in the southern 
specimens. — E d. 
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