white's thrush. 187 



and Japan ; that number of species in the two countries 

 being considered identical by this gentleman, who is one 

 of the best authorities as an Ornithologist in Europe. Of 

 these _ one hundred and fourteen birds common to Europe 

 and Japan, eighty-six are found in the British Islands. 

 Mr. Gould considers that the large size of the wing in this 

 new European Thrush indicates migratorial powers and 

 habits, and that it is in all probability dispersed over a great 

 part of southern Siberia. Should this eventually prove to 

 be the case, the southern migration of this bird is then no- 

 thing more than that which is performed every year by the 

 Fieldfares and Redwings, two species so closely allied to 

 it as to belong to the same genus ; and these two Thrushes 

 breeding in June in the most northern parts of Norway 

 and Lapland, were found by Mr. Strickland in winter at 

 Smyrna, about three degrees farther south than the nortli 

 of Japan. Lord Malmesbury's bird was shot on the 24th 

 of January, and proved to be a male. The Ornithologists 

 of this country are much indebted to his lordship for the 

 knowledge of this handsome addition to the list of British 

 Thrushes. 



Of the habits of this species but little, I believe, is known. 



The beak is dark brown, except the base of the under 

 mandible, which is pale yellow brown ; the space between 

 the beak and the eye pale wood-brown ; the irides hazel : 

 the feathers on the upper part of the head and neck yellow 

 brown, tipped with black ; those of the back, scapulars, and 

 the upper tail-coverts, darker brown, with a crescentic tip 

 of black, the shaft of each feather yellow : the smaller wing- 

 coverts have broad pale yellow ends, the lateral webs black, 

 the shafts yellow brown ; the greater wing-coverts dark 

 brown with light yellow brown ends, together forming two 

 oblique descending bars ; the feathers of the spurious wing- 

 are light yellow brown, tipped with black, forming an as- 



