Av kite's thrush. 



PASSER£S. 



251 



TURDJD.H. 



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TuRDUs VARius, Pallas.* 

 WHITE'S THRUSH. 



Tardus Wh'iiel f. 



TuRDUS, Z/;?n(FM.t+. — Bill moderate, straight, convex above ; point of the 

 upper mandible compressed, notched and slightly decurved ; gape furnished with 

 a few hairs. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly closed by a membrane. Wings 

 with the first feather very short ; the second shorter than the third or fourth, 

 which are generally the longest. Feet with the tarsus longer than the middle 

 toe ; the outer toe connected with the middle toe at the base. 



By the kind permission of the late Lord Malmesburj^ I 

 am enabled to give a figure from a male Thrush shot by him 

 at Heron Court, near Christchurch, January the 24th, 1828, 

 as first announced by Mr. Eyton ; who, believing it to be a 

 new species, conferred upon it, in honour of Gilbert White 

 of Selborne, the names above cited ; and his lordship allowed- 



* Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, i. p. 449 (1811). 

 t Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 92 (1886). 

 t Syst. Nat. Ed. ]2, i. p. 291 (1766). 



