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hood of Bandon, county of Cork. It is said in the Pauna of Cork, 

 that the gentleman at whose place the bird was obtained, saw 

 what he believed to be another of the same species there ; but 

 when, is not mentioned. 



Two specimens, at most, of T. Whitei have been obtained in 

 Great Britain, and both in Hampshire. The one which has 

 served for the descriptions and figures of the species was shot 

 by Lord Malmesbury in January, 1828. The Irish specimen is 

 similar to it. The following notes upon this bird were made in 

 Dublin in September, 1845, when a comparison was also drawn 

 up between it and a thrush from Nepal, so far as the imperfect 

 specimens would admit : — the Irish bird wants the head and neck j 

 the Nepal one, the legs. The latter specimen was presented by 

 Mr. Hodgson to the museum of Trinity College, Dublin, under 

 the name of Oreocincla Whitei, and noted as a duplicate of one 

 (and numbered 194), which he had presented to the British 

 Museum collection. 



Irish Nepal 



specimen specimen 



Length of wing 6^- inches 5i 



First quill feather about equally short in both . 



1st quill, tip from carpus, 2|- 



3rd quill (longest), exceeding 4th (next in length) -^ 



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4th „ „ 5th 

 5th „ „ 6th 

 6th „ „ 7th 

 2nd „ „ 5th 

 4th „ „ 2nd 

 Tarsus 



The tail of the Irish bird in length and size generally, exceeds 

 that of the Nepal one, as much proportionally as the wing. In 

 colouring and marking the two birds are similar, — agreeing with 

 the descriptions and figures of Eyton and Yarrell, — with the 



* This trivial difference is exceeded by one half in the other wing of the same speci- 

 men. In the one wing, the third and fourth quills are of equal length ; in the other, 

 the fourth exceeds the third by one-twelfth of an inch. 



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