PALE TEBUSH. 



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INSECTIVOR^. 



Family TURDID^. f Bonajxirte. ) 



Genus Tijrdus. fLinncBus.J 



PALE THRUSH. 



Turdus pallens. 



Ttirdus pallens, 



' ' palHdus, 



' ' obscui'us, 

 ' ' Wei'neri, 



' ' riifulus, 



' ' Seyffertitze, 



' ' modestiis, 



" javaiiicus. 



Pallas; Zoog. Ross. As., i., p. 457, (1811-13.) 



Latham. Blasius nee Gmelin. 



Bonaparte. Radde nee Gmelin. 



Bonelli. 



Drapier. 



Brehm. 



Eyton. 



Blyth. 



Specific Characters. — Upper parts brown, with white tips to the greater 

 wing coverts and secondaries. A white streak over the eye; cheek brown; 

 throat -dotted" with brown longitudinally; neck white; chest pale rufous; 

 abdomen white; under tail coverts white, spotted on each side with pale 

 brown; tail brown. Length: male, seven inches to seven inches and a half; 

 female, seven inches and one third to seven inches and a half. 



In the first edition of this work I figured and described T. pallidus, 

 Pallas. In this I fell into a mistake general among ornithologists at 

 that time. Since then, however, it has been discovered that the bird 

 truly entitled to European rank is the T. pallens of Pallas, while it 

 is doubtful whether T. pallidus ever occurred in Europe at all. 



Naumann has confessed himself in error, and has figured the rightful 

 bird in pi. 357, vol. 13, of his well-known work the "Vogel Deutsch- 

 lands." Salvadori, in his "Fauna d' Italia," has the following remarks 

 upon the subject: — "In the period of about a year two individuals of 

 this species {Turdus pallens, Pall.) were killed in the neighbourhood 



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