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DENTIROSTRES. 



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WHITFS THRUSH. 



Tardus Whitei, White's Tlirash, Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 92. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxi. 



By the kind permission of tlie Earl of Malmesbury, I am 

 enabled to give a figure from that extremely beautiful 

 Thrush which was shot by his lordship himself on his es- 

 tate at Heron Court, near Christchurch, in January 1828 ; 

 and his lordship has very kindly allowed me the free use of 

 this specimen, to make a close examination of it, and by 

 taking the measurements of the various parts of the bird, 

 to institute a comparison between it and two others which 

 have been brought to this country from the East, one of 



