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pale yellowish red, tinged in front with blue, and beneath 

 yellow; the heel yellow. 



After the first autumnal moult the plumage is complete. 



Individuals of this species vary, as will appear, very 

 considerably in size. In the autumn the feathers have become 

 more or less ragged and worn, and all the colours have faded 

 considerably, the brown into grey, and the yellow into greyish 

 white. 



Mr. Bix, of Bongate, writes me word of white Thrushes 

 found two successive years in that neighbourhood, the one nest 

 being within forty yards of the preceding one. The former 

 contained four young, two of them white with red eyes, and 

 the other two of the common colour. The latter had also 

 four young, one of them white, and three of the proper colour ; 

 the eyes of the latter, which was kept alive, became afterwards 

 darker; so also Dr. Henry Moses, of Appleby, Westmoreland, 

 tells me that last year a Thrush's nest was found in that 

 neighbourhood with three cream-coloured and two usual- 

 coloured young ones, and that this year five were found in 

 a nest all cream-coloured: in one which was taken and kept 

 alive the eyes were scarlet. 



J. W. Lukis, Esq. has forwarded me a curious variety of 

 the young of this species, which is all over of a light yellowish 

 brown colour, the breast shewing incipient marks of the usual 

 spots. There was another of the same colour in the nest, one 

 of which was left with its parents, which were of the ordinary 

 colour, and was brought up by them; the other, the one in 

 question, was kept alive for a month with care. Another, an 

 old bird, was observed at the same time, and the same place, 

 Heacham Hall, near Lynn, Norfolk, with white feathers in its 

 tail. 



