WOOD THRUSH. 
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morning, and commences before sunrise, at which time 
it is very loud, full, and emphatic. 
The Robin is 9j inches in length. Head, back of the neck, and 
tail, black ; the back and rump ash-color. The wings black, edged 
with pale ash. Three small spots of white border the eye. Throat 
and upper part of the breast black, the former streaked with white. 
Below, dark orange or rufous. Belly and vent “white. Legs dark 
brown. Bill yellow, as in the European Blackbird; sometimes 
dusky brown above towards the tip. The colors of the female are 
paler. The young, during the 1st season, are spotted with white and 
dusky on the breast, and at that time bear a considerable resemblance 
to the Fieldfare of Europe. 
WOOD THRUSH. 
(Turdus mustelinus, Gm. Audubon, pi. 73. T. melodus , Wilson, 
i. p. 35. pi. 2. fig. 1. Tawney Thrush, Pennant’s Arctic Zoology , 
ii. p. 19. No. 198. Latham, Synops. iii. p. 28. No. 15.) 
Sf. Charact. — Cinnamon-brown, rufous on the head ; rump and 
tail inclining to olive ; beneath white, spotted with blackish; tail 
short, slightly emarginate-; the bill of moderate length. 
This solitary and retiring songster, during summer, 
inhabits the whole continent from Hudson’s Bay to 
Florida ; and, according to my friend Mr. Ware, breeds as 
far south as the vicinity of Natchez, in the territory of 
Mississippi. Whether they leave the boundaries of the 
United States in the winter, is not satisfactorily ascertain- 
ed ; as the species is then silent, and always difficult of 
access, its residence is rendered peculiarly doubtful. 
The lateness of the season in which they still linger, ren- 
ders it probable, that they may winter in the Southern 
States, as a young bird, gleaning insects and berries, has 
been caught in a garden in Boston on the 26th of Oc- 
tober. 
