Plate CXXXI. Male, Female, and Young.
Male with the bill yellow, the upper part and sides of the head black;
upper parts dark grey with an olivaceous tinge; quills blackish-brown,
margined with light grey; tail brownish-black, the outer two feathers
tipped with white; three white spots about the eye, throat white,
densely streaked with black; lower part of fore neck, breast, sides,
axillars, and lower wing-coverts reddish-orange; abdomen white; lower
tail-coverts dusky, tipped with white. Female with the tints paler.
Young with the fore neck, breast, and sides, pale-reddish, spotted
with dusky, the upper parts darker than in the adult. Bill at first
dusky, ultimately pure yellow.
_Male_, 10, 14. _Female_, 9, 13.
From Texas eastward and northward, to the Fur Countries. Throughout
the interior. Winters in abundance in all the southern States.
Columbia River. Abundant.
Robin, Turdus migratorius, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 35.
Turdus migratorius, Bonap. Syn. p. 75.
Merula migratoria, Red-breasted Thrush, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 176.
American Robin or Migratory Thrush, Turdus migratorius, Nutt.
Man. v. i. p. 338.
American Robin or Migratory Thrush, Turdus migratorius, Aud.
Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 190; v. v. p. 442.