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brought from that country, and is most prudently to be 

 omitted from further consideration. It must, however, be 

 remarked, that the Museum at Lund, according to Prof. 

 Nilsson, contains an example of the Australian species said 

 to have been killed in Funen, but as it is known to have 

 passed through a dealer's hands in Hamburg, there is here 

 also good reason to suspect a mistake. 



The bill of White's Thrush is dark brown, except the base 

 of the lower mandible, which is pale yellow-brown ; the 

 space between the bill 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 tips, the webs 

 black, the shafts yellow-brown ; the greater wing-coverts 

 dark brown with light yellow-brown tips, together forming 

 two obliquely descending bars ; the feathers of the spurious 

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

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

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

 tips, the shafts black : the four middle tail-feathers uniform 

 pale brown : the remaining ten darker in the webs, but 

 lighter at the ends, and of these the two outer pairs are the 

 lightest. The chin and throat are white ; from the lower edge 

 of the under mandible descends a narrow dark streak ; the 

 neck, breast, and all the lower surface, white, tinged on the 

 breast and flanks with yellow-brown, all the feathers having 

 a black crescent- shaped tip ; before the wing on each side, 

 the brown colour of the back extends a little forward toward 

 the breast ; anterior lower wing-coverts white at the base 

 and black at the tip ; lower tail-coverts white ; tail beneath 

 greyish-brown, the feathers with white shafts ; legs and toes 

 pale brown, the claws rather lighter. 



Lord Malmesbury's bird measures twelve inches and a 

 half, the wing from the carpal joint to the end of the longest 

 primary, six inches and three eighths ; the second and fourth 

 primaries equal in length ; the third the longest in the wing. 



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