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beak between these and specimens from Java ; compared likewise with those 

 of Austrahan countries, these last are larger, although wearing the same 

 plumage.'' 



Pallas, in his ' Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica ' (page 449, tome i.), intro- 

 duces this species as " Turdus variiis " and on the faith of Gmelin senior and 

 Stella, who observed and described it in the high land of Siberia — the first 

 at Krasnojari, near the river Jenissei, the other about Bargusin. Pallas 

 never obtained it himself. 



In March 1859 I procured a fine male in the garden of the old Consulate 

 at Amoy. I had watched him for some da3^s previously : he grubbed about 

 under the bushes, and took to the trees when disturbed, with a loud sibilant 

 note. 



I procured a paler variety in Formosa, and separated this as a species 

 in 1863. A similar pale variety was taken on board ship in the Namoa 

 Straits, near Amoy ; and 1 then saw that the Formosan bird was merely a 

 variety of the ordinary species. 



It was not until I got to Ningpo, in 18^72, that I found that White's 

 Thrush spent the summer in the wooded parts of the hills around that 

 neighbourhood; and I thence conclude that it resides in similar hills, in 

 summer, all down the coast of China, resorting to the plains and gardens in 

 its winter migrations. 



In May 1872 I resided for a time at a large temple near Ningpo called 

 " Chin-hooze," in the midst of woods situated on a hillside. Some boys 

 pointed to a nest, hidden in the upper branches of a high pine tree, 

 and asked if they should climb to it. Thinking it was a blackbird's 

 I assented, and then wandered away. Soon after I met the boys, who 

 carried in their hands the nest (to all appearance that of a Blackbird), with 



