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marks 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- 

 published Supplement to the Land Birds of his Manual, 

 M. Temminck has given a catalogue of the names of one 

 hundred and fourteen birds which are found both in 

 Europe 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 Is- 

 lands. 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 dis- 

 persed over a great part of southern Siberia. Should this 

 eventually prove to be the case, the southern migration of 

 this bird is then nothing 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. Strick- 

 land in winter at Smyrna, about three degrees further 

 south than the north 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. 



Since the publication of the preceding portion of this 

 subject, a notice has appeared in the eleventh volume 

 of the Annals of Natural History, and another in the 

 Fauna of the County of Cork, stating, that early in the 

 month of December, 1842, an example of this rare Thrush 



