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in the County of Cork, and is now in the possession of 
G. J. Allman, Esq., of Grattan street, Dublin. I have 
also learned, by obtaining a copy of the Fauna of the 
Department of the Moselle, published in 1825, at Metz, by 
M. J. Holandre, librarian and conservator of the Museum 
of Natural History in that city, that a specimen of this 
Thrush had been taken, with several other Thrushes, a few 
leagues from Metz, in the wood of Rezonville, in the month 
of September 1788. This bird was first in the collection of 
the late Baron Marchant, and is now in the Museum of the 
city of Metz. The opinion of Baron Marchant was, that 
this species might in summer visit some part of the north of 
Asia, and that the individual he possessed, driven by some 
accidental circumstances, out of the line of migration pecu- 
liar to the birds of that part of the world, had then fallen 
into the track of European migration. Bryan H. Hodg- 
son, Hsq., includes this species in his catalogue of the Birds 
of Nepal, and Mr. Blyth has sent it from Caleutta. M. 
Temminck seems to incline to the opinion that the speci- 
mens found in Japan, those found in India, and the seven 
or eight examples which have been taken in different parts 
of Europe, all belong to the same species. 
Of the habits of this species but little, I believe, is 
known; in Japan M. Temminck says it inhabits high 
mountains. 
The beak is dark brown, except the base of the under 
mandible, which is pale yellow brown ; the space between 
the beak and the eye pale wood-brown; the irides hazel: 
the feathers on the upper part of the head and neck yellow 
brown, tipped with black ; those of the back, scapulars, and 
the upper tail-coverts, darker brown, with a crescentic tip 
of black, the shaft of each feather yellow : the smaller wing- 
coverts have broad pale yellow ends, the lateral webs black, 
