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Probus in Cornwall (Rodd, Zoologist, 1874, p. 8880); and another killed in December 1886 at Tresco 
in the Scilly Islands (Cornish, Zoologist, 1887, p. 114). There are three records from the valley of the 
Severn: the first on the 26th of January, 1859, near Stratford-on-Avon (Tomes, Ibis, 1859, p. 379) ; 
the second in January 1870 near Taunton in Somersetshire (Cecil Smith, Zoologist, 1870, p. 2018); 
and the third on the 6th of January, 1871, near Langsford in the same county (Cecil Smith, Zoologist, 
1871, p. 2607). One example has occurred in Norfolk, on the 10th of October, 1871, near 
Hickling (Gunn, Zoologist, 1871, p. 2848); one in Suffolk in 1881, at Moulton, near Newmarket 
(Babington, Birds of Suffolk, p. 249); and one in Durham, on the 17th of January, 1872 (Hancock, 
Birds of Northumberland and Durham, p. 64). 
White’s Thrush has occurred no less than five times in Yorkshire. Ап example said to have 
been shot at Almondbury Bank near Huddersfield was exhibited on the 14th of October, 1864 
(Beaumont, Naturalist, 1865, p. 217). А second example was seen, but not procured, early in 
1870, at Danby in Cleveland (Atkinson, Zoologist, 1870, p. 2142). А third killed itself by flying 
against a telegraph-wire near Whitby in November 1878 (Simpson, Zoologist, 1880, p. 68. А 
fourth was shot at Rimswell near Withernsea in November 1881 (Clarke and Roebuck, Zoologist, 
1884, p. 174). А fifth was obtained at Waplington Manor near Pocklington in January 1882 
(Backhouse, Zoologist, 1882, p. 74). 
There are several other records of the occurrence of White's Thrush in England, but some of 
them rest upon more or less doubtful evidence. І have several times met with examples of one or 
other of the Australian Ground-Thrushes in collections where they were doing duty as White's 
Thrush, but by far the greater number of British occurrences above quoted may be accepted 
without doubt. 
The example shot in the winter of 1859 near Stratford-on-Avon, and recorded by Mr. Tomes, 
frequented a dry leafy ditch in a small grass inclosure thickly surrounded by elms, and was busy 
turning over the dead leaves, doubtless in search of food. Its flight was very undulating, like that of 
the Green Woodpecker, and low, the bird often settling on the ground and only making choice of a 
tree when it happened to pass under one, into which it rose almost vertically. It appeared to be 
almost entirely a ground-feeder, and was not seen to take any notice of the ivy- or hawthorn-berries, 
on which Blackbirds and other Thrushes were feeding at the time. 
Dr. Dybowski, describing its habits in the valley of the Selenga River, remarks that it is shy 
and difficult to shoot, and that its song is quite different to that of the Song-Thrush. He describes 
its call-note on migration as an original but melodious whistle. 
Blakiston and Pryer, describing the habits of White's Thrush in Japan, where it is probably 
only a winter visitor, say that it has no song, only a single penetrating note, like the plaintive 
whistle of a Bullfinch, which can be heard for a long distance ; and that, though the bird is dics shy, 
it can easily be attracted by imitating its note. і 
А nest and eggs were procured by Swinhoe in May 1872 at Ningpo in China, and were figured 
by him in the late Mr. Dawson Rowley's * Ornithological Miscellany’ (ii. p. 256, pl. lxi.); but the 
nest was not absolutely identified as that of White's Thrush, as the parent birds were not procured, 
and itis possible that some mistake took place in the identification, 
Geocichla varia is the largest species of the sub-genus Oreocincla, but there is not much 
difference in size between the smallest examples of the Siberian species and the largest examples of 
the Himalayan 6. dauma. These two species resemble each other closely in colour, and the 
variations attributable to age and season appear to be exactly the same іп both. Тһе general colour 
of the upper parts of the adults in spring plumage is olive-brown rather than russet-brown, a 
character only to be found elsewhere in the sub-genus in Geocichla lunulata, G. cuneata, and 
