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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; eye, large and dark, surrounded with a white 
ring ; legs, long, slender, and pale brown. 
Though I have given this bird the same name that 
Mr Pennant has applied to one of our thrushes, it must 
not be considered as the same ; the bird which he has 
denominated the tawny thrush being evidently, from its 
size, markings, &c. the wood thrush, already described. 
No description of this bird has, to my knowledge, 
appeared in any former publication. 
GENUS XXI.— SYLVIA, Latham. 
SUBGENUS I. SYLVIA . 
96 . SYLVIA AUEOCAPILLA , BONAPARTE. — TUEDUS AUEOCAPILLUS , 
WILSON. 
GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH. 
WILSON, PLATE XIV. FIG. II. 
Though the epithet golden-crowned is not very suit- 
able for this bird,-— that part of the head being rather of 
a brownish orange, — -yet, to avoid confusion, I have 
retained it. 
