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was obtained by Mr. Spraine at his residence near Bandon 

 in the county of Cork, and is now in the possession of 

 G. J. Allman, Esq., of Grattan Street, Dublin. I have 

 also learned, by obtaining a copy of the Fauna of the 

 Department of the Moselle, published in 1825, at Metz, by 

 M. J. Holandre, librarian and conservator of the Museum 

 of Natural History in that city, that a specimen of this 

 Thrush had been taken, with several other Thrushes, a few 

 leagues from Metz, in the wood of Rezonville, in the 

 month of September, 1788. This bird was first in the 

 collection of the late Baron Mar chant, and is now in the 

 Museum of the city of Metz. The opinion of Baron Mar- 

 chant was, that this species might in summer visit some 

 part of the north of Asia, and that the individual he pos- 

 sessed, driven by some accidental circumstances out of the 

 line of migration peculiar to the birds of that part of the 

 world, had then fallen into the track of European migra- 

 tion. Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq., includes this species in 

 his catalogue of the Birds of Nepal, and Mr. Blyth has 

 sent it from Calcutta. M. Temminck seems to incline to 

 the opinion that the specimens found in Japan, those found 

 in India, and the seven or eight examples which have been 

 taken in different parts of Europe, all belong to the same 

 species. 



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

 known ; in Japan, M. Temminck says it inhabits high 

 mountains. 



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 



