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U. S. P. R. REXP. AND SURVEYS-ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
* TURDUS MUSTELINUS, Gmelin. 
Wood Thrush. 
Turdus mustelinus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 817.— Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 331.— Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. 
II, 1807, 6 ; pi. lxii.— Nuttall, Man. 1,1832, 343.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 372 : V, 1839, 
. 446 ; pi. 73.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 24 ; pi. 144.— Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 270. 
Jtierula mustelina, Rich. List, 1837. 
Turdus melodus, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 35 ; pi. ii. 
Tawny thrush, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 337. 
Sp. Ch. —Above clear cinnamon brown, on the top of the head becoming more rufous, on the rump and tail olivaceous. The 
under parts are clear white, sometimes tinged with buff on the breast or anteriorly, and thickly marked beneath, except on the 
chin and throat and about the vent and tail coverts, with sub-triangular, sharply defined spots of blackish. The sides of the 
head are dark brown, streaked with white, and there is also a maxillary series of streaks on each side of the throat, the central 
portion of which sometimes has indications of small spots. Length, 8.10 inches ; wing, 4.25 ; tail, 3.05 ; tarsus, 1.26. 
Hub .—Eastern United States to Missouri river ; south to Guatemala 
This species is quite stout in form ; the tail is even or very slightly rounded laterally ; the 
feathers acuminate. The third and fourth quills are longest; the second rather longer than 
the fifth. The legs are yellow ; the hill brown, hut yellow at the base beneath. 
A female specimen has nearly the whole lower parts tinged faintly with huff. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
15fi9 
May 28,1844 
S. F. Baird. 
8.08 
13.43 
4.25 
1570 
O 
8.08 
13.25 
4.43 
728fi 
V 
8390 
Independence, Mo. 
96 
7.75 
12.50 
4.50 
black, feet gray. 
93 
4fifi0 
May 3,1855 
7947 
TURDUS PALLASII, Cab an is. 
Hermit Thrush. 
Turdus pallasii, Cabanis, Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1847, I, i, 205 .—Ib. Museum Heineanum, 1850-1, 5. 
Turdus solitarius, Wilson, Am. Orn. V, 1812, 95, (not of Linnaeus. The figure quoted pi. xliii, fig. 2, belongs to 
T. swainsonii .)— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 29 ; pi. 146.— Bonaparte, 
List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. Av. 1850, 270.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1844, 191. 
Mtrula solitaria, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831,184. (The figure pi. xxxv, probably belongs to T. swainsonii .)— 
Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 7 ; pi. lxiii, (in part with swainsonii .) 
Turdus mitior, Bon. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 72.— Ib. Synopsis, 1828, 75.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1830, 346.— Aud. 
Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 303 : V, 445 ; pi. 58. 
Turdus gultatus, Cabanis, Tschudi Fauna Peruana, 1844, 6, 187, (not Muscicapa guttata, Pall.) 
? Turdus minimus, Seligmann, Samml. II, 177 ; pi. lxii. 
Sp. Ch. —Fourth quill longest; third and fourth a little shorter ; second about equal to the sixth ; about ,30 of an inch shorter 
than the longest. Tail slightly emarginate. Above light olive brown, with a scarcely perceptible shade of reddish, passing, 
however, into decided rufous on the rump, upper tail coverts, and tail, and to a less degree on the outer surface of the wings. 
Beneath white, with a scarcely appreciable shade of pale buff across the fore part of the breast, and sometimes on the throat; 
the sides of the throat and the fore part of the breast with rather sharply defined subtriangular spots oi' dark olive brown ; the 
sides of the breast with paler and less distinct spots of the same. Sides of the budy under the wings of a paler shade than the 
back. A whitish ring round the eye ; ear coverts very obscurely streaked with paler. Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 3.84 ; tail, 
3.25; tarsus, 1.16; No. 2092. ^ 
Hab .—Eastern North America to the Mississippi river. 
