196 PALE THRUSH. 
captured in Europe. He amends, however, this state- 
ment in 1840, by referrimg to the memoir of Gené in 
the thirty-seventh volume of the Academy of Turin, 
who records two other specimens captured in November, 
1827 and 1828, in the neighbourhood of Turm. In 
this paper Gené at the same time points out the sin- 
gular mistake of Werner, who figured this bird in the 
“Atlas” as ZT. Naumannii, although Temminck’s text 
distinctly refers to Naumann’s figures of the latter; 
being the first, however, to figure the bird, though 
under a wrong designation, Professor Bonelli gave it 
the name of Werneri, which will be found among the 
synonymes. 
The bird was described long ago by Pallas, Gmelin, 
and Latham. Mr. Gould in his figure has delineated 
faint-coloured spots on the breast, remarking-—‘*We 
possess other specimens, in which the spots on the 
breast are wanting, and the white of the throat and 
abdomen is less pure, but whether the difference is 
occasioned by sex or age we are unable to determine.” 
Like the two species which precede this, nothing is 
known of its habits and propagation, though we may 
fairly assume they are similar to those of the other 
species in this well-marked family. 
The adult has all the upper parts of a more or less 
pale olive brown; a black spot covers the lore; the 
forehead brown; superciliary ridge reddish yellow; the 
neck and throat blackish ash; the chin white; the crop 
olive ash; the nape, the back, and wing coverts, dark 
olive red; quill feathers and tail of a bright ashy black; 
a white spot on the imner barb of the three lateral 
quill feathers of the tail; the flanks of an ashy olive; 
all the rest of the inferior parts of a pure white. 
Length eight inches three or four lines. The differences 
