244 ALLEN'S NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. 



and having a narrow moustachial line of black ; throat white, 

 as also the abdomen and under tail-coverts; the fore-neck, 

 breast, and sides of body with crescent-shaped black edges, 

 before which is a subterminal shade of golden-buff, narrower 

 than on the upper surface; sides of the upper breast light 

 brown with white shaft-lines and the same margins as the rest 

 of the flanks ; under wing-coverts black, the axillaries white 

 with the terminal half black ; quills dusky brown below, with 

 a broad white band across the base of the inner web of the 

 quills ; bill dark brown, paler below ; feet yellowish brown ; iris 

 dark brown. Total length, ii'S inches; culmen, i'i ; wing, 6*4; 

 tail, 4'i ; tarsus, 1*35. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length, 

 ii inches; wing, 6.0. 



Range in Great Britain. An accidental visitor in late autumn 

 and winter. The species has occurred at least a dozen times 

 or more, most of the captures having been made in England, 

 but one instance is known from Berwickshire, and three from 

 Ireland. The first time that it was met with in England was 

 in 1828, when a specimen obtained in Hampshire was described 

 as Turdus whitei by Eyton, who believed it to be a new species, 

 and named it in honour of Gilbert White of Selborne. The 

 title of White's Thrush, thus acquired, has been universally 

 recognised by British naturalists, and may well commemorate 

 the name of an observer of bird-life, than whom no one is more 

 venerated in this country at the present day. 



Range outside the British Islands. White's Thrush is a Siberian 

 bird, breeding in the south-eastern and south-central districts 

 of Siberia, in China north of the Yangtze, and probably in 

 Japan. It winters in Southern China and the Philippine 

 Islands, and it is at the latter season of the year that specimens 

 occur in Europe. The species has been obtained in Norway 

 and Sweden and as far south as Italy and the Pyrenees, but it 

 is in Heligoland that it most frequently occurs, and no one 

 who has visited that island can forget the sight of the beautiful 

 specimens in Gaetke's Museum, all in perfect plumage, and 

 mounted by the hands of the old naturalist himself, 



Habits. Not much has been recorded of the habits of 

 White's. Thrush beyond the fact that it seems to be essentially 



