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Indian and Australian regions, and the species inhabiting these 

 areas are mostly stationary, or at best only slightly migratory 

 within the limits of the regions they inhabit. White's Thrush, 

 which comes to England occasionally, is, on the contrary, 

 a decidedly migratory bird, breeding in Eastern Siberia, and 

 wending its way south in winter to Japan, South China, and 

 the Philippines. It has fourteen tail feathers instead of 

 twelve, as in the majority of Thrushes, a peculiarity which 

 it shares with OreocicJda horsfieldii of Java and O. hancii of 

 Formosa. 



.1. white's thrush, oreocichla varia. 



Turdus varius, Pall. Zoogr., Rosso-Asiat, i., p. 449 (181 1); 



Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 146 (1839); Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 251 



(1S72); Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p 77, pi. 10 (1878); B. O. U. 



List Br. B., p. 3 (1883); Lilford, Col. Fig Br. B., pt. iii. 



(1886); Saunders, Man., p. 11 (1889). 

 Geocichla varia, Seeb., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., v., p. 151 (1881); 



id. Br. B., i., p. 200(1883). 



Adult Male — General colour above ochreous-brown, varied 

 with black circular margins to the feathers, all of which have 

 whitish shaft-lines, and a golden-buff subterminal shade ; this 

 banded plumage somewhat closer on the head, and the spots 

 smaller; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median-coverts 

 blackish, with broad ochraceous ends; the greater series blackish, 

 externally paler brown, with slightly indicated buff tips; bastard- 

 wing-feathers light brown ; primary-coverts brown at bases, golden- 

 buff in the centre, and black at the ends, forming a well-marked 

 pattern on the wing ; quills brown, the primaries light brown 

 at the base, the feathers being here ochreous-brown externally, 

 the centre of the primaries dark brown nearly to the edge, and 

 the pale edge increasing towards the end of the quills ; the 

 secondaries blackish with a tip of golden buff, and with an in- 

 dentation of ochreous-buff on the margin near the end ; four 

 centre tail-feathers (fourteen in number) light brown, without pale 

 tips, the rest blackish, externally ochreous-brown, the feathers 

 tipped with white, the outer ones more broadly : sides of face 

 pale ochreous-buff, the feathers edged with black, and a black 

 spot behind the ear-coverts ; cheeks white, spotted with black, 



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