12 WHITE’S THRUSH. 
Many stragglers have been obtained, mostly in autumn, from 
Norway and Sweden southwards to Italy and the Pyrenees. Dr. 
Menzbier thinks that White’s Thrush breeds no further off than the 
Ural, as three specimens have been obtained there in summer ; and 
eastward this species, which might be more appropriately called 
the “Golden” Thrush, extends through Siberia from about the line 
of Krasnoiarsk on the Yenesei to Lake Baikal and Northern China ; 
the winter migrations reaching to Southern China, the Philippines, 
and even Sumatra. In Japan it is common in Yokohama market in 
winter, and having been obtained in July on the volcano of Fuji, it 
was probably breeding there. A nest built on a pine-branch, close 
to which a pair of birds were seen, was obtained by Swinhoe near 
Ningpo, and one of the eggs figured by Seebohm (‘British Birds,’ 
pl. 8) has a greenish-white ground with minute reddish spots : 
measurements 1°2 by ‘g in. White’s Thrush is mostly insectivorous, 
but in China banyan and other berries are consumed. Its note is a 
soft plaintive see, audible at a long distance. 
In the adult the bill is brownish ; legs and feet yellowish-brown ; 
upper plumage yellowish-brown tipped with black, darker on the 
wings ; under parts white tinged with buff, and boldly marked with 
black crescentic spots ; a distinct light-coloured patch in the middle of 
the underside of the wing ; tail of fourteen feathers, the central four 
yellowish-brown and the rest dark brown, all tipped with white. 
Length 12 in.; wing 6°45 in. An Australian species, 7: /unulatus, 
with only ¢we/ve tail-feathers, has not unfrequently been passed off 
as White’s Thrush. 
An example of the Siberian Thrush (Z. szdcricus, Pallas), said to 
have been shot in Surrey in the winter of 1860-61, and originally 
supposed to be a melanism of the Redwing, was in the collection of 
the late Mr. F. Bond, who bequeathed it to the British Museum ; 
while I fully believe that another was picked up exhausted at Bon- 
church, I. of Wight, in the winter of 1874; but the evidence as yet 
is not sufficient to warrant the introduction of this species into the 
British list. Like White’s Thrush, it has the light-coloured patch 
on the underside of the wing. The adult male is dark slate-grey, 
with a conspicuous white eye-streak, and white abdomen; the 
female is olive-brown above, and whitish-buff barred with brown 
beneath ; both sexes having white patches at the tips of the tail- 
feathers. Wanderers have occurred as near our shores as France, 
Belgium and Germany. 
