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GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 
and, after this discovery, never attempted to swallow a wasp 
until lie first pinched his abdomen to the extremity, forcing 
out the sting, with the receptacle of poison.” 
It is certainly a circumstance highly honourable to the 
character of birds, and corroborative of the foregoing senti- 
ments, that those who have paid the most minute attention to 
their manners, are uniformly their advocates and admirers. 
66 He must,” said a gentleman to me the other day, when 
speaking of another person, — 66 he must be a good man; for 
those who have long known him, and are most intimate with 
him, respect him greatly, and always speak well of him.” 
GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. * — TURDUS 
AUROCAPILLUS Plate XIV. Fig. 2. 
JEdiv. 252. — Lath. iii. 21 La Figuier a tete d’or, Briss. iii. 504. — La Grivelette 
de St Domingue, Buff. iii. 31*7. PI. enl. 398 Arct. Zool. p. 339. No. 203 
Turdus minimus, vertice aureo, The Least Golden-crown Thrush, Bartram, p. 290. 
— Peale's Museum , No. 7122. 
SEIUR US A UROCAPILL US. — Swainson. 
Sylvia aurocapilla, Bonap. Synop. p. 77 Seiiirus aurocapillus, North. Zool. ii. 227. 
Though the epithet Golden-crowned is not very suitable 
for this bird, that part of the head being rather of a brownish 
orange, yet, to avoid confusion, I have retained it. 
* This curious species, with the S. aquaticuso f Plate XXIII, and some others, 
differs materially in economy from the Thrushes, notwithstanding their general 
form and colours ; and, to judge from the account of the manners of our 
present species given by Wilson, it will approach very closely to Anthus, and 
our A. arboreus, and in form and structure to some of the Warblers. The 
manners of S. aquaticus, again, resemble more those of the Wagtails ; but has 
somewhat of the true Thrush in perching high, and in possessing a sweet and 
pensive song. We have, therefore, in shape, colour, and some of the habits, 
an alliance to the Thrushes, while the colours and their distribution agree both 
with Merula and Anthus, and in their principal economy a combination of the 
Sylviance and Motacillanoe, — altogether a most interesting form ; while, in the 
structure of their nest, and the colour of the eggs, they agree with the Wrens. 
Mr Swainson has made from it his genus Seiiirus. — Ed. 
