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HISTORY OF 



WHITE'S THRUSH. 



Turdus Whitei. NOBIS. 



WE are indebted to the Earl of Malmsbury for being able to 

 insert a cut of the above bird in our work. His specimen is the 

 only one that has been obtained, that we are aware of, in the 

 British Isles, and was originally supposed to be identical with 

 Turdus Varius, described and figured in Dr. Horsfield's " Zoo- 

 logical Researches in Java." It was killed, Lord Malmsbury 

 informs us, by him, on the 24th of January, 1828. It attracted 

 his attention, on disturbing it, in passing through a plantation, 

 where it appeared to have established its haunt in a high furze 

 brake, as it returned to it repeatedly before he could succeed in 

 shooting it. Its flight was undulating, similar to that of a 

 Misseltoe Thrush, of which, when he first saw it on wing, he 



