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

 Gr. 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 Marchant, and is now in the Museum of the 

 city of Metz. The opinion of Baron Marchant was, that 

 this species might in summer visit some part of the north of 

 Asia, and that the individual he possessed, driven by some 

 accidental circumstances, out of the line of migration pecu- 

 liar to the birds of that part of the world, had then fallen 

 into the track of European migration. Bryan H. Hodg- 

 son, 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 speci- 

 mens 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 wing- 

 coverts have broad pale yellow ends, the lateral webs black, 



