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TURDUS VARIUS. 



(WHITE'S THRUSH.) 



Turdus varius, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 449 (1811). 



Turdus aureus, Holandre, Annuaire de Verronais, 1825, p. 310. 



Turdus squa?natus, Boie, Isis, 1832, p. 252. 



Turdus whitei, Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 92 (1836). 



Oreocincla varia (Pall.), Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 136. 



Oreocincla whiteii (Eyton), Gould, ut supra. 



Oreocincla aurea (Hoi.), Bp. Cat. Ucc. Eur. p. 34. no. 136 (1842). 



Turdus lunulatus, Bias. List. B. of Eur. p. 9 (1862, nee Lath.). 



Oreocincla hancii, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 275. 



Turdus dauma, V. Pelz. Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1871, p. 703 (nee Lath.). 



Figuroe notabiles. 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 81 ; id. B. of Great Britain, ii. pi. 39 ; Maumann, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 354. 



Ad. pileo et corpore supra fuscis, plumis nigro apicatis et ochraceo-fusco subterminatis : alis extus pallide 

 fuscis et intus nigro-fuscis, saturate fusco apicatis : tectricibus alarum minoribus nigricantibus pallide 

 flavido apicatis, tectricibus majoribus saturate fuscis flavo-fusco apicatis : rectricibus 14, centralibus 

 pallide fuscis immaculatis, reliquis nigricantibus anguste pallido fusco-albido apicatis, duabus extimis 

 conspicue pallidiore terminatis et albido apicatis : mento et gula albis : capitis lateribus albidis nigro 

 guttatis : pectore et hypochondriis albis flavo-fusco lavatis et nigro lunulatis : corpore reliquo subtus 

 albo : rostro fusco, ad basin sordid e flavido : pedibus sordide flavido-incarnatis : iride fused. 



Adult Male (Lake Baikal) . Crown and upper parts generally wood-brown, the feathers with a crescentic 

 tip of black and a subterminal ochraceous brown band ; quills pale browu on the outer and brownish 

 black on the inner web with dark-brown tips and black shafts ; lesser wing-coverts blackish tipped with 

 pale yellowish, the larger coverts dark brown with light-yellowish-brown tips, forming two obliquely 

 descending bars ; feathers of the spurious wing light yellowish brown tipped with black, forming an 

 ascending oblique bar ; fourteen rectrices, the central four pale uniform brown, the next three on each 

 side blackish brown with narrow light tips, the remaining two on each side broadly terminated with 

 light brown and tipped with dull white ; chin and throat white ; sides of the head and neck spotted 

 with black ; underparts white, breast and flanks tinged with yellowish brown, the feathers with black 

 crescentic tips ; under tail-coverts white ; anterior under wing-coverts white tipped with black, a white 

 band crosses the under surface of the wing ; bill dark brown, yellowish at the base ; iris dark brown ; 

 legs pale brownish flesh-colour. Total length about 12 inches, culmen TO, wing 6 - 5, tail 4"75, tarsus 

 l - 35, the second primary intermediate in length between the fourth and the fifth, the third longest, the 

 fourth being but little shorter. 



Although an inhabitant of Eastern Asia, this Thrush has frequently straggled to various parts of 

 Europe, and as far west even as Great Britain, where it has been captured on at least nine 



