12 white's thrush. 



might be more appropriately called the " Golden " Thrush, extends 

 eastward through Siberia from about the line of Krasnoiarsk on the 

 Yenesei to Lake Baikal and Northern China ; the winter migrations 

 reaching to Southern China, the Philippine Islands, and even 

 Sumatra. In Japan Captain Blakiston says that the ' Nuyejinai,' as 

 it is called, is common in Yokohama market in winter, and having 

 been obtained in July on the volcano of Fuji, it was probably 

 breeding there. A nest built on a pine-branch, close to which a 

 pair of birds were seen, was obtained by Swinhoe near Ningpo, and 

 one of the eggs figured by Mr. Seebohm (' British Birds,' pi. 8) 

 has a greenish-white ground with minute reddish spots : measure- 

 ments 1-2 by '9 in. Although White's Thrush is mostly insectivorous, 

 in China banyan and other berries are consumed. Its note is a 

 soft plaintive sec, audible at a long distance. 



In the adult the bill is brownish ; legs and feet yellowish- brown ; 

 upper plumage yellowish-brown tipped with black, darker on the 

 wings ; under parts white tinged with buff, and boldly marked with 

 black crescentic spots ; a distinct light-coloured patch in the middle 

 of the underside of the laing ; tail oi fourteen feathers, the central 

 four yellowish-brow^n and the rest dark brown, all tipped with white. 

 Length 12 in.; wing 6*45 in. An Australian species, T. iu?tulatus, 

 with only twelve tail-feathers, has not unfrequently been passed off 

 as White's Thrush. 



An example of the Siberian Thrush (Zl sibiricus, Pallas), said to 

 have been shot in Surrey m the winter of 1860-61, and originally 

 supposed to be a melanism of the Redwing, is in the collection of 

 Mr. F. Bond ; and I fully believe that another was picked up ex- 

 hausted at Bonchurch, I. of Wight, in the winter of 1874; but the 

 evidence is not sufificient to warrant the introduction of this species 

 into the British list. Like White's Thrush, it has the light-coloured 

 patch on the underside of the wing, characteristic of the genus 

 Geocichla. The adult male is dark slate-grey, with a conspicuous 

 white eye-streak, and white abdomen ; the female is olive-brown 

 above, and whitish-buff barred with brown beneath ; both sexes 

 having white patches at the tips of the tail-feathers. Stragglers have 

 occurred as near our shores as Germany, Belgium and France. 



