WHITE'S THRUSH. 197 



the shafts yellow brown ; the greater wing-coverts dark 

 brown with light yellow brown ends, together forming two 

 oblique descending bars ; the feathers of the spurious wing- 

 are light yellow brown, tipped with black, forming an as- 

 cending oblique bar ; the wing-feathers pale brown on the 

 outer web, brownish black on the inner web, with dark 

 brown ends, the shafts black : the four central tail-feathers 

 uniform pale brown ; the others darker in the webs, but 

 lighter at the ends, and of these the outer tail-feathers are 

 the lightest. The chin and throat is white ; from the lower 

 edge of the under mandible descends a narrow dark streak ; 

 the neck, breast, and all the under surface, white, tinged 

 on the breast and flanks with yellow brown, all the feathers 

 having a black semilunar tip ; before the wing on each side, 

 the brown colour of the back extends a little forward 

 toward the breast ; anterior under wing-coverts white at 

 the base, and black at the tip ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 under surface of the tail-feathers greyish brown, the shafts 

 white ; legs and toes pale brown, the claws rather lighter. 



This bird having been killed in Hampshire, was named 

 after White of Selborne by my friend T. C. Eyton, Esq. 



