4052 The Zoologist — Jdly, 1874. 



of it that it was not a common bird, and directly I had it in the 

 field of the glass I recognized the peculiar plumage of Turdus 

 Whitei."— Zoo/. S. S. 2142, quoted from the ' Field.' 



2nd. Lord Clifton records, at p. 2845 of the ' Zoologist' for 1871, 

 that on the 5th of January of that year, he saw a bird which, on 

 rising from some dead leaves in a wood, he mistook for a woodcock, 

 to which its flight, or the shape of its wings, or both, gave it a 

 marked resemblance. His lordship continues : — "On my advancing 

 to the spot the bird again rose from some dead leaves further on, 

 and settled on a low tree near me. I then saw that it was of the 

 thrush family and resembled the missel thrush in size, though 

 differing so remarkably from that bird in flight and habits. Dis- 

 turbed from the tree, the bird flew off" with the same rapid, low, 

 woodcock-like flight to another tree, perching on a very low 

 branch, and then dropping down among the dead leaves again. 

 My own opinion is that this bird was White's thrush, but I do not 

 wish to force this opinion on your readers. I would merely remind 

 them that the woodcock-like flight and terrestrial habits are among 

 the characteristics noted by Mr. R. F. Tomes in his description of 

 White's thrush." 



3rd. "Dr. Tristram, of Greatham, tells me he saw a White's 

 thrush on the lOlh of April last; it alighted on a tree close to his 

 house; he was only a few yards from it, and plainly saw the 

 crescentic markings. A pair of missel thrushes immediately began 

 to bully and chase it about the lawn, when it flew away southwards. 

 Dr. Tristram thinks this may have been the mate of the bird 

 obtained on the Dene here." — Johti Sclater, Zool. S. S. 3148. 



I have next to trace its European and extra-European range 

 from Tenirainck, who leaves us to call it by the specific name of 

 varius of Pallas or Withei of Eyton ; the latter I presume to be 

 intended as a correction of the word Wliitei employed by Eyton, 

 Gould and Yarrell. This learned ornithologist, in the first place, 

 expresses his conviction of the specific identity of the examples 

 from Japan, the Isles of Sunda and Australia. " No other character 

 than that of a slight diflference in the size of the beak is available 

 for distinguishing the two races of this species, one of which 

 inhabits Japan, but occasionally makes its appearance in Europe; 

 the other is found scattered from the Isles of Sunda as far as New 

 Holland; the latter have the beak a little longer, and sometimes 

 also a little stouter, than those which have not unfrequenlly visited 



