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them found in Japan, the other in Java ; specimens of the 

 first of which arc in the Museum of the Zoological Society, 

 and of the second in the Museum of the Honourable East 

 India Company. The measurements of this latter specimen 

 I have obtained through the kindness of Dr. Horsfiekl, by 

 whom this species was first made known. To Mr. Jesse I 

 am indebted for an introduction to his friend Mr. Bigge 

 of Hampton Court, who has allowed me the use of a spe- 

 cimen of a Thrush which appears to be identical with Dr. 

 Horsfield's Thrush from Java, and also with specimens 

 from Australia, which are certainly very closely allied to 

 the Javanese Thrush. Mr. Bigge's bird is said to have 

 been shot in the New Forest, Hampshire, by one of the 

 forest-keepers, who parted with it to a bird-preserver at 

 Southampton, of whom Mr. Bigge bought it for his own 

 collection. The measurements of these various examples 

 will enable the reader to decide on the species. 



Lord Malmesbury*'s bird measures twelves inches and a 

 half. The length of the wing from the carpal joint to the 

 end of the longest primary, six inches and three-eighths ; 

 the first feather of the wing-primaries is very short ; the 

 second and fourth equal in length ; the third feather the 

 longest in the wing. 



The Japan Thrush measures twelve inches in its whole 

 length : the wing six inches and four-eighths ; — the first fea- 

 ther very short ; the second a little longer than the fifth ; 

 the third and fourth feathers equal, and the longest. 



Two specimens of a Thrush in every respect the same 

 as the Japan Thrush have been shot on the banks of the 

 Elbe. One of these was lately obtained in a fresh state by 

 Mr. Gould when at Hamburgh, and is figured in the twenty- 

 first part of his beautiful work on the Birds of Europe. 

 This specimen, with a wing rather longer than the Japanese 

 bird, is now in the collection of T. B. L. Baker, Esq. of 

 Hardwicke Court, Gloucester. 



