JAPANESE THRUSH. 
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INSi:SSORES. 
DENTIROSTRES. MERULIDJE. 
PLATE XLVII. 
JAPANESE THRUSH. 
Turdus various. (Horsjield.) 
The rare species, called by British ornithologists White’s 
Thrush, the Turdus various of Java,* and the Turdus aureus 
of the Moselle,*!* are by Temminck brought under one 
article; and we think the reasons assigned by this eminent 
ornithologist may be the most acceptable information that 
can be given respecting a bird so little known in England. 
“No other distinction,” says Temminck, “ than a slight differ¬ 
ence in the size of the beak can be observed between the 
two races of this species, of which the one appears occasion¬ 
ally in Europe, and is found as far eastward as Japan ; the 
other is met with from the Isles of Sunda to New Holland. 
These latter have the beak usually a little longer, and rather 
more robust than the race which shows itself occasionally 
in our latitudes, and of which specimens are received from 
Japan ; although, in a great number of subjects from India 
which I have examined I have found individuals whose 
beak was certainly neither larger nor longer than those of 
specimens from Japan. I unite them, consequently, con¬ 
trary to the opinion of Mr. Gould, who makes two species 
of them, and appears also much inclined to form a third, 
for the reception of subjects from Australia.” 
* Horsf., in Zoological Researches in Java. t Stoll, Faune de la Moselle. 
