148 TURDUS VARIUS. 



The brownish-yellow of the back comes forward on the side at 

 the shoulder. The axillar feathers are white, with the tips 

 black ; the smaller wing-coverts white, the larger dusky ; the 

 white band on the inner webs of the quills conspicuous beneath ; 

 the under surface of the quills and tail feathers, brownish-grey. 



Length to end of tail lOf inches ; bill along the ridge Ij^^, 

 along the edge of lower mandible 1/^ ; wing from flexure 5^^; 

 tail 3| ^ ; tarsus 1 ^| ; first toe 5^ twelfths, its claw 5^ twelfths; 

 second toe j%, its claw /^^ ; third toe ^g, its claw j% ; fourth 

 toe j%, its claw 2^ twelfths. 



Another individual, also from Java, and presented to the 

 Museum of the University of Edinburgh, by the East India 

 Company, is precisely similar in colouring, but differs a little in 

 the wings and tail ; the first quill being an inch and a quarter 

 lonsr, the second four and a half twelfths shorter than the third, 

 the third and fourth equal, the fifth scarcely shorter. The tail 

 is much rounded, the lateral feathers being nine-twelfths of 

 an inch shorter than the longest, and four-twelfths shorter than 

 the next, which is three-twelfths shorter than the third. 



Length to end of tail 10^ inches; bill along the ridge 1, 

 along the edge of lower mandible, 1 f | ; wing from flexure 5j% ; 

 tail 4 J ; tarsus 1^% ; first toe 5^ twelfths, its claw 5h twelfths ; 

 third toe \h, its claw j%. 



These specimens obviously belong to the species described 

 and figured by Dr Horsfield in his Zoological Researches in 

 Java. He states that " it inhabits the thick forests which 

 cover the mountain Prahu, and, as far as my observations ex- 

 tend, it never leaves a region between 6 and 7000 feet above 

 the level of the ocean. On this circumscribed region it is 

 extremely abundant. Its food consists chiefly of insects and 

 worms. It is easily surprised by the natives. During my last 

 visit to this mountain, I obtained in the course of a few days 

 a great number of individuals. I never found it in any other 

 part of Java." 



To this species also belongs an individual in the possession 

 of Mr Bigge of Hampton Court, which, according to Mr Yarrell, 

 " is said to have been shot in the New Forest, Hampshire, 

 by one of the forest-keepers, who parted with it to a bird-pre- 



