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Dr. HorsfielcFs bird from Java, Tnrdus variiis, measures 

 ten inches and three-quarters : the wing five inches and 

 four-eighths ; — the first feather short ; the second and sixth 

 equal ; the third, fourth, and fifth also equal, and the longest 

 in the wing. 



Mr. Bigge's specimen is eleven inches and a half long : 

 the wing five inches and four-eighths ; — the first feather short ; 

 the second as long as the sixth ; the third, fourth, and fifth 

 of equal length, and the longest in the wing. 



An Australian specimen, also in the Museum of the Zoo- 

 logical Society, measures twelve inches in length : the wing 

 five inches and four-eighths ; — the first feather short ; the 

 second shorter than the sixth ; the third, fourth, and fifth 

 nearly equal, and the longest. 



So much alike in their colour and markings are the 

 six birds just referred to, that one description would apply 

 to all : but in the relative size and structure of the wing, 

 particularly, it will be seen that Lord Malmesbury''s Hamp- 

 shire Thrush, the Hamburgh specimen, and that from Japan, 

 appear to be identical ; while that from Java, Mr. Bigge's 

 bird, and the specimen from Australia, appear also to be 

 identical. 



In Lord Malmesbury's Thrush the beak is two lines 

 shorter, and the tarsus one line shorter, than the same parts 

 in either of the Eastern specimens, all of which in these 

 particulars are very nearly alike. Mr. Gould remarks that 

 in his Hamburgh specimen also the beak was smaller than 

 those of the Eastern specimens. 



The circumstance of the Japan bird occurring in three 

 different instances in Europe, is less remarkable than might 

 at first appear, when we remember that in the recently pub- 

 lished Supplement to the Land Birds of his Manual, M. 

 Tcnnninck has given a catalogue of the names of one hun- 

 dred and fourteen birds which are found both in Europe 



