. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . rmer parts of Georgiaand West Florida. They are easily reared, and becomevery familiar and amusing companions, showing a strongattachment to the hand that feeds and protects them. Intheir manners, intelligence, song, and sagacity, they nearlyapproach to the Mocking-bird, being equally playful, ca-pricious, petulant, and affectionate.* The Brown Thrush is 11£ inches long, and 13 in alar extent. Thewhole upper parts are of a bright reddish-brown; the wings arecrossed with 2 bars of whitish, relieved with black. T
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . rmer parts of Georgiaand West Florida. They are easily reared, and becomevery familiar and amusing companions, showing a strongattachment to the hand that feeds and protects them. Intheir manners, intelligence, song, and sagacity, they nearlyapproach to the Mocking-bird, being equally playful, ca-pricious, petulant, and affectionate.* The Brown Thrush is 11£ inches long, and 13 in alar extent. Thewhole upper parts are of a bright reddish-brown; the wings arecrossed with 2 bars of whitish, relieved with black. Tail very long, * For additional traits of this species, see the Introduction. 376 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. rounded at the end, broad, and of the same color with the yellowish-white, with the breast and sides marked with longpointed or pencillate dusky spots. Bill without notch; blackabove, whitish below near the base. Legs dusky brownish. Irisyellow, (much paler in the young bird.) In the female the whitebars on the wing are narrower, and the spots on the breast CAT-BIRD. (Mimus felitox. Boxap. Turdus fclivoz, Vieill. Aud. pi. 123. , Wilson, ii. p. 90. pi. 20. fig. 3. Phil. Museum, No. C770.) Sp. Charact. — Dark slate color, paler beneath; the vent rufous;the crown and tail black, the latter rounded. Tins quaint and familiar songster passes the winter inthe southern extremities of the United States, and along CAT-BIRD. 377 the coast of Mexico, from whence, as early as February,they arrive in Georgia. About the middle of April theyare first seen in Pennsylvania, and at length leisurely ap-proach this part of New England, by the close of the firstor beginning of the second week in May. They continuetheir migration also to Canada; where they proceed intothe fur-countries as far as the 45th parallel, arriving onthe banks of the Saskatchewan, about the close of are said also to inhabit Kamtschatka, and conse-quently penetrate very far to the nor
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