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INSECTIVORJE. 



Family TURDID^, f Bonaparte. J 



Genus Turdus. fLinncsus.J 



PALE THRUSH. 



Turdus pallidas. 



Turdus pallidus, 



pallens, 



iliacus-pallidus, 



seyffertitzii, 



werneri, 



Merle blafard, 

 Blass drossel, 



Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 

 Latham; 1790. 



Temminck; 1835. Bonaparte. 

 Keyserling and Blasitjs. 

 Schinz. Degland. 

 Pallas; Zoog., i, p. 457. 



SCHLEGEL; 1844 



Nat/mann; xi, p. 279. 

 Brehm; Vog. Deutschl., p. 387. 

 Gene; Mem. Acad Tor., xxxvii, 



p. 291. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Distinguished from all other Thrushes by 

 wanting absolutely the black spots on the crop and sides. Length 

 seven inches and a quarter. Tail three inches. Wings in repose 

 reach to half length of tail. Tarsi thirteen lines. — Gene. 



Thts is another of the Eastern Thrushes, occurring 

 accidentally in Europe. Temminck, in his "Manual" 

 in 1835, states that only three specimens have been 



