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time, also, it even approaches the city, where I have frequently 
observed it busily engaged under trees, in solitary courts, 
gardens, &c. feeding and training its young to their profession. 
About the middle of September, it retires to the south, a full 
month before the other. 
Length, six inches ; breadth, ten ; back, dusky olive, 
inclining to greenish ; head, subcrested, and brownish black ; 
tail, forked, and widening towards the tips, lower parts, pale 
yellowish white. The only discriminating marks between 
this and the preceding, are the size and the colour of the 
lower mandible, which in this is yellow, in the Pewee black. 
The female is difficult to be distinguished from the male. 
This species is far more numerous than the preceding, 
and, probably, winters much farther south. The Pewee was 
numerous in North and South Carolina in February; but the 
Wood Pewee had not made its appearance in the lower parts 
of Georgia, even so late as the 16th of March. 
FERRUGINOUS THRUSH.*— TURDUS RUFUS. 
Plate XIV. Fig. 1. 
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Fox-coloured Thrush, Catesb. i. 28 Turdus rufus, Linn. Syst. 293. Lath. iii. 39. 
— La Grive de la Caroline, JBriss. ii. 223. — Le Moquer Franfois, De Luff. iii. 
323. PL enl. 645. — Arct. Zool. p. 335. No. 195. — Peale's Museum, No. 5285. 
0RPH2E US R UFUS. — Swainson. 
Turdus rufus, Bonap. Synop. p. 75. — Orphseus rufus, Fox-coloured Mock Bird, 
North. Zool. ii. p. 190. 
This is the Brown Thrush, or Thrasher, of the middle and 
eastern states ; and the French Mocking Bird of Maryland, 
* This species, with O. polyglottos, is the typical form of Mr Swainson’s 
genus Orphaus, differing from Turdus in its longer form, chiefly apparent from 
the greater length of its tail, its rounded and shorter wings, its long and 
bending, and in proportion more slender bill. The form is confined to the New 
World, and will be represented in Africa by Crater opus and Donocobius, Swain. ; 
and in Asia and Australia by Pomatorhinus, Horsf. They appear to live 
nearer the ground than the true Thrushes, frequenting the lower brushwood ; 
