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Sciences at Stockholm that a male had been killed in Jemt- 

 land, one of the Swedish provinces, in November, 1837. 



The description of this species was first given by Pallas, 

 in his great work on the zoology of Kussia, from the papers 

 of J. Gr. Gmelin, who met with it at Krasnojark on the 

 Jenisei, and noticed the peculiar feature of its possessing 

 fourteen tail-feathers. Steller also found it on the eastern 

 shores of Lake Baikal. Herr Radde seems to be the only 

 other Siberian traveller who has mentioned it. On the 

 Tarei-noor he shot three, two males and a female, apparently 

 making their journey northward, in the spring of the year. 

 Mr. Swinhoe states that it is found in China generally, and 

 also in Formosa, while several specimens have been sent 

 from Japan. Mr. Gould has received an example from 

 Manilla, which, if obtained there, indicates the most southern 

 point yet known to be reached by this bird. 



Of the habits of this species but little is known. Tem- 

 minck, from information supplied to him by the Dutch 

 travellers in Japan, states that it inhabits high mountains. 

 Mr. Swinhoe says (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 279) that at 

 Amoy in China, where it is an extremely rare visitant, it 

 only appears in spring, when the banyan-berries are ripe. 

 Mr. Tomes, in his very able paper, before mentioned, says 

 that its digestive organs differ somewhat from those of other 

 British Thrushes in being strictly adapted to a diet of 

 insects, and it is worthy of remark that several of the ex- 

 amples which have been obtained in Europe were flushed 

 from the ground, where among dead leaves they seem to 

 have been searching for insect-food. This circumstance, 

 coupled with their mottled plumage and their large wings, 

 has in some instances led to their having been mistaken at 

 the time for Woodcocks. The form of the wing and the 

 development of the breast-bone in White's Thrush indicate, 

 as Mr. Tomes has observed, a bird possessing great powers 

 of flight and essentially migratory habits. Nothing is known 

 of its mode of nidification or the colour of its eggs. Its 

 flight is said to be very undulating, and its call-note like 

 that of other Thrushes. 



