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94. TURDUS viscivoEus, L. Dubbel Trast. The Missel 



Thrush. D. P. 



The largest of the northern thrushes, about 1 ft. long ; 

 colour above, light olive grey, below white, with black 

 pointed spots on the neck, oval on the breast ; under 

 wing coverts, and the inner tips of the three outer tail 

 feathers white ; tail grey-brown. 



Is met with generally throughout the country, and I have 

 taken the nest in Quickiock, Lapland, but it does not go 

 much farther north, for there the nest was considered a 

 rarity, as well as that of the common thrush. The boy 

 who brought them to me considered them worth as much as 

 that of the pine grosbeak. 



95. T. YAEIUS, Pall. Manflackig Trast. White's Thrush. 



Nearly the size of the last ; yellow brown-grey above, 

 below white; each feather on the upper and under parts 

 of the body edged broadly with black, in the form of a 

 half moon ; tail consisting of fourteen feathers ; second 

 wing-feather like the fourth; third the longest. 

 The native liome of this species, according to Pallas, is 

 the rocky mountains of South Siberia, and also Japan. It 

 has been killed twice in England, and once in Jemtland, 

 in Sweden. 



Another form, or it may be a closely allied species, the 

 Turdus lunulatus, L., which is also said to have been shot 

 in England, is a native of Australia. I cannot for certain 

 say whether or not we had both forms in Australia, but a 

 specimen of our common mountain thrush of Australia, as 

 well as its egg, taken by me in Victoria, in 1855, now lies 

 before me. My Australian bird exactly agrees with Nilsson's 

 description, as far as the size and relative length of the wing- 

 feathers. " Considerably smaller than the missel thrush, but 

 larger than the common thrush. Length 9 in. 5 1. ; tail con- 

 sisting of twelve feathers ; second wing feather equal to the 

 sixth; third, fourth, and fifth nearly alike, but fourth a little the 

 longest (of course I conclude that he reckons the first very 

 small pointed wing feather as one), from carpal joint 5 in. 2 1. 



