TURDINA. It 
WHITE’S THRUSH. 
Turpbvus vARIuS, Pallas. 
This boldly-marked species, rather larger than the Mistle-Thrush, 
belongs to a group known as the ‘Ground’ Thrushes (Geocich/a), 
characterized by a partiality for woodland glades, where insects, 
which constitute their principal food, are obtained among the dead 
leaves. Owing to this habit, the large size, mottled plumage, 
and low undulating flight, several of the White’s Thrushes obtained 
in this country have at first been mistaken for Woodcocks. The 
earliest recorded British example was shot in January, 1828, in 
Hampshire ; receiving a scientific as well as a trivial name in 
honour of White of Selborne, from Eyton, who supposed the 
species to be undescribed. Other individuals have since been 
obtained in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Shrop- 
shire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorkshire, and Durham; once in Berwick- 
shire; and in Ireland in counties Cork, Longford, and Mayo. 
Most of these occurrences have been in the winter, and only one in 
October. 
On Heligoland more than a dozen have been taken in September 
and October, and on the return migration up to the 23rd of April. 
