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of this specimen, to make a close examination of it, and by 
taking the measurements of the various parts of the bird, 
to institute a comparison between. it and two others which 
have been brought to this country from the East, one of 
them found in Japan, the other in Java; specimens of the 
first of which are in the Museum of the Zoological Society, 
and of the second in the Museum of the Honourable East 
India Company. The measurements of this latter speci- 
men I have obtained through the kindness of Dr. Hors- 
field, by whom this species was first made known. To 
Mr. Jesse I am indebted for an introduction to his friend 
Mr. Bigge of Hampton Court, who has allowed me the 
use of a specimen of a Thrush which appears to be iden- 
tical with Dr. Horsfield’s Thrush from Java, and also with 
specimens from Australia, which are certainly very closely 
allied to the Javanese Thrush. Mr. Bigge’s bird is said 
to have been shot in the New Forest, Hampshire, by one 
of the forest-keepers, who parted with it to a bird-pre- 
server at Southampton, of whom Mr. Bigge bought it 
for his own collection. The measurements of these various 
examples will enable the reader to decide on the species. 
Lord Malmesbury’s bird measures twelve inches and a 
half. The length of the wing from the carpal joint to the 
end of the longest primary, six inches and three-eighths ; 
the first feather of the wing-primaries is very short; the 
second and fourth equal in length; the third feather the 
longest in the wing. 
The Japan Thrush measures twelve inches in its whole 
length: the wing six inches and four-eighths ;—the first 
feather very short; the second a little longer than the 
fifth ; the third and fourth feathers equal, and the longest. 
Two specimens of a Thrush in every respect the same 
as the Japan Thrush have been shot on the banks of the 
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