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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 pub- 

 lished Supplement to the Land Birds of his Manual, M. 

 Temminck has given a catalogue of the names of one hun- 

 dred 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 Islands. 

 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 dispersed 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 Kedwings, 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. Strickland in 

 winter at Smyrna, about three degrees farther south than 

 the north of Japan. Lord Malmesbury's bird was shot on 

 the 24th of January, and proved to be a male. The Orni- 

 thologists of this country are much indebted to his lord- 

 ship 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 



was obtained by Mr. Spraine at his residence near Bandon 



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