WHITE'S THRUSH. 



PASSERES. 



251 



TUJiDlD/K. 



TURDUS VARIUS, Pallas.* 

 WHITE'S THRUSH. 



T nrdus Whitei f. 



TURDUS, Linn(eus+. Bill moderate, straight, convex above ; point of the 

 upper mandible compressed, notched and slightly decurved ; gape furnished with 

 a few hairs. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly closed by a membrane. Wings 

 with the first feather very short ; the second shorter than the third or fourth, 

 which are generally the longest. Feet with the tarsus longer than the middle 

 toe ; the outer toe connected with the middle toe at the base. 



BY the kind permission of the late Lord Malmesbury, I 

 am enabled to give a figure from a male Thrush shot by him 

 at Heron Court, near Christchurch, January the 24th, 1828. 

 as first announced by Mr. Eyton ; who, believing it to be a 

 new species, conferred upon it, in honour of Gilbert White 

 of Selborne, the names above cited ; and his lordship allowed 



* Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, i. p. 449 (1811). 

 t Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 92 (1836). 

 I Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 291 (1766). 



