Plate CLXVI. Male.
Wings with the third quill largest, the fourth scarcely shorter, and
slightly exceeding the second. Upper parts uniform light
reddish-brown, a little deeper on the head; quill and tail-coverts
light olive-brown, the outer webs of the former like the back; lower
parts greyish-white, the sides and lower part of the neck, and a small
portion of the breast tinged with pale yellowish-brown, and marked
with small faint and undecided triangular brown spots. Female an inch
less in length than the male, but otherwise similar.
_Male_, 7-2/12, 12.
From Texas to the Fur Countries, as well as in the interior. Resident
in winter in the Floridas, though the greater number remove beyond the
United States. Rather abundant.
Tawny Thrush, Turdus mustelinus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. v. p. 98.
Turdus Wilsonii, Bonap. Syn. p. 76.
Merula minor (Swainson), Little Tawny Thrush, Swains. & Rich.
F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 179, Plate 36. The description and
figure clearly refer to the present species.
Wilson's Thrush or Veery, Turdus Wilsonii, Nutt. Man. v. i. p.
349.
Tawny Thrush, Turdus Wilsonii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 362;
v. v. p. 446.