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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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berries. Its time is, for the most part,spent on the ground, where it moves with singular agility by leaps, stoppinginstantaneously and standing erect for a few moments, as if apprehendingdanger, but immediately renewing its course. The specimen presented in the plate was procured and drawn in the Stateof Maine. All the Thrushes examined, as well as the Shrikes, Warblers, Flycatchers,Swallows, in short all the land birds, have a pair of muscles proceeding fromthe sides of the thyroid cartilage, to be inserted into some part of the furcula.In all the Thrushes, the right lobe of the liver is larger than the left, underwhich it passes in the form of a thin expanded lobe; and there is no gall-bladder. Tawny Thrush, Turdus mustelinus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. v. p. 98.Turdus Wilsonh, Bonap. Syn., p. 76. Merdla minor (Swainson), Little Tawny Thrush, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Amer.,vol. ii. p. 179, Plate 36. The description and figure clearly refer to the present species. / 7\T • S 0. PI 146
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