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White's Thrush has only ónce occurred on Yezzo, but is brought in considerable numbers to the 
winter market in Yokohama (Seebohm, Birds Jap. Emp. p. 43), and may possibly breed on the 
volcano of Fuji-yama, as it is said to have been once shot there in June (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 
1878, p. 241), but it was not found in that locality by J ouy's expedition. Mr. Ringer has forwarded 
examples from Nagasaki, from which place it was sent to Europe at least as long ago as 1840 
(Temminck, Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 604). Jean Kalinowski procured a pair in the spring of 1887 near 
Séoul, the capital of Korea (Tacz. P. 2. S. 1887, p. 602). U 
It passes through North China on migration in spring and autumn (David et Oustalet, Ois. 
Chine, p. 158), and the remains of an example which had probably been killed by a hawk were 
found in a tomb-grove between Takoo and Pekin in September 1860 and were recorded under the 
name of Oreocincla whitei by Swinhoe (Ibis, 1861, p. 333). Ап example was procured on Lighthouse 
Island, near Chefoo, on the 6th of October (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 445). The nest of the present 
species is said to have been found in May 1872 at Ningpo, to the south of the delta of the Yangtze- 
Kiang, but the evidence is not altogether satisfactory. 
White's Thrush winters in Southern China, and is recorded, under the name of Oreocincla aurea, 
by Swinhoe (Ibis, 1860, p. 56) as a straggling visitant to Amoy, a male bird, now in my collection, 
having been obtained by him on the 7th of March, 1859, and a second specimen observed, while 
a third was procured in March 1866. 
It is probable that the species also winters in Formosa, where an example was obtained on the 
Camphor Hills, in the north of the island, on the 20th of March, 1862, and described as a distinct 
species under the name of Oreocincla hanc by Swinhoe (Ibis, 1863, p. 275). А second example 
was procured by him on the 15th of March, 1864 (Ibis, 1866, p. 304), and I have examined a third 
in the Paris Museum. 
The Formosan birds are undoubtedly much less ochraceous than Japanese skins, but as they 
are in spring plumage (the type is dated March 20th), and most of the Japanese specimens are in 
autumn plumage, the difference is probably one of season rather than of race. This opinion was also 
entertained by Swinhoe, who afterwards regarded O. hancü as identical with O. varia (P. Z. S. 1871, 
p. 368); and though, in 1881, I treated the Formosan bird as a distinct species under the name of 
Geocichla hancii (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 153), the large series which has since passed through my 
hands has led me to believe that Swinhoe was right in suppressing the name. 
Further to the south the species winters in the Philippine Islands (Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, 
p. 429), probably only in the high mountains, as Mr. John Whitehead has met with it in the high- 
lands of Luzon (Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 445). 
There is also a specimen in the British Museum from Pegu, where it was procured by 
Major Wardlaw Ramsay on the 17th of January (Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 153). There 
is, however, no evidence that White's Thrush has ever occurred further west on migration in any part 
of the Indian Peninsula, the specimens referred to the present species by Blyth, Jerdon, Hodgson, 
and others having turned out to be G. dauma or G. nilgiriensis. 
It is not known that White's Thrush breeds west of the valley of the Yenesei. According to 
Professor Slowzow, of Tynmen, it is a rare straggler to the district north of Omsk and common in 
the district south of that town (Menzbier, Ibis, 1893, p. 372); but if this be the case it is rather 
remarkable that there is not an example in Professor Slowzow's Museum. А single example has 
been procured to the south of Omsk and has been identified by Dr. Menzbier. Three examples 
have been obtained in East Russia—one of them in July 1887 near Slatoust on the Ural Mountains 
south of Ekaterinburg, and two of them (August 1891 and August 1892) near Perm ; but no mention 
is made of this species in Sabanüeff's * Avifauna of the Ural’ or in Bogdanow's * Birds of the Volga.’ 
То various parts of Europe White's ‘Thrush comes as an accidental visitor. There are four 
