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thought it a variety. It is a female, was solitary, and, notwith- 

 standing the season of the year, was plump and heavy. 



Two specimens, similar to the above bird, have, we under- 

 stand, been obtained by the Zoological Society of London from 

 the neighbourhood of Hamburgh. Mr. Yarrell, to whom we 

 are indebted for this information, compared a drawing of ours, 

 copied from a very beautiful one by Mr. John Curtis, and a 

 description of Lord Malmsbury's bird, with the specimens above 

 mentioned, and found them to coincide. 



Lord Malmsbury's bird was killed near Heron Court, his 

 Lordship's seat in Hampshire ; on which account we have ven- 

 tured to propose the specific appellation of Whitei, in memory 

 of one with whom every body is familiar by name, the late 

 Gilbert White, author of " White's Natural History of Sel- 

 borne," a work which has and will afford many hours amuse- 

 ment and instruction to hundreds, and is deservedly classed 

 among our standard books on British natural history. 



The general colour of White's Thrush, on the upper surface, 

 is ochraceous yellow, with a greenish tinge on the crown ; tips 

 of all the feathers, black, or dusky, forming narrow transverse 

 lunated spots ; auriculars, with a black line extending from the 

 occiput over their posterior edges. Under surface, white, with 

 an ill-defined ochraceous fascia across the breast ; all the 

 feathers tipped with a black or dusky lunule, within which is 

 one of light ochraceous; the throat and under coverts, pure 

 white. Thighs, dusky. Quills, tipped with light ochraceous ; 

 the edges of each exterior web, near the point and the base, 

 marked with an elongated patch of the same colour, presenting, 

 when the wing is partly closed, the appearance of two transverse 

 fasciae across the whole of the quill feathers ; spurious wing, 

 ochraceous, tipped with black ; greatest wing coverts, with the 



