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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 them found in Japan, the other in Java ; specimens 

 of the first of which are in the Museum of the Zoological 

 Society, and of the second in the Museum of the Honour- 

 able East India Company. The measurements of this lat- 

 ter specimen I have obtained through the kindness of Dr. 

 Horsfield, 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 specimen of a Thrush which appears to be iden- 

 tical 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-pre- 

 server 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 twelve 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 

 feather 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 



