ON THE 



NESTING AND EGGS OF WHITE'S THRUSH, 



OREOCINCLA VARIA (PalL). 



By Mr. R. SWINHOE. 



(Plate LXI.) 



Every tyro in the study of British ornithology must know the magnificent 

 Thrush shot in Hampshire, and named (in honour of the celebrated 

 naturalist of that county, Gilbert White; Turdus whitei, or White's Thrush, 

 by T. C. Eyton, Esq. 



Mr. Gould figured it in his ' Birds of Europe,' plate Ixxxi. Temminck, 

 in his ' Manuel d'Ornithologie,' introduces '' Merle variee ou de White," 

 "Turdus varius sen whitei (Gould)," as a bird of Europe. He says:— ''It 

 visits, accidentally, Western Europe ; five or six examples only of it can be 

 cited— one in England, two in Hamburg, one on the Rhine, another in 

 Germany (without any indication of place) ; and then (1788) a specimen has 

 been killed near Metz ; they speak again, but vaguely, of several other 

 captures. The species is more abundant in Japan, perhaps also in some other 

 parts of Asia, whence it would come to Europe. I have found no marked 

 difference in coloration of plumage between Hamburg specimens and those of 

 Japan ; one sees only a very slight difference of size, and in the bulk of the 



