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The circumstance of the Japan bird occurring in three 
different instances in Europe, is less remarkable than might 
at first appear, when we remember that in the recently pub- 
lished Supplement to the Land Birds of his Manual, M. 
Temminck has given a catalogue of the names of one hun- 
dred and fourteen birds which are found both in Europe 
and Japan; that number of species in the two countries 
being considered identical by this gentleman, who is one 
of the best authorities as an Ornithologist in Europe. Of 
these one hundred and fourteen birds common to Europe 
and Japan, eighty-six are found in the British Islands. 
Mr. Gould considers that the large size of the wing in this 
new Kuropean Thrush indicates migratorial powers and 
habits, and that it is in all probability dispersed over a great 
part of southern Siberia. Should this eventually prove to 
be the case, the southern migration of this bird is then 
nothing more than that which is performed every year by 
the Fieldfares and Redwings, two species so closely allied 
to it as to belong to the same genus; and these two 
Thrushes breeding in June in the most northern parts 
of Norway and Lapland, were found by Mr. Strickland in 
winter at Smyrna, about three degrees farther south than 
the north of Japan. Lord Malmesbury’s bird was shot on 
the 24th of January, and proved to be a male. The Orni- 
thologists of this country are much indebted to his lord- 
ship for the knowledge of this handsome addition to the 
list of British Thrushes. 
Since the publication of the preceding portion of this 
subject, a notice has appeared in the eleventh volume 
of the Annals of Natural History, and another in the 
Fauna of the County of Cork, stating, that early in the 
month of December 1842, an example of this rare Thrush 
was obtained by Mr. Spraine at his residence near Bandon 
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