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INSECTIVOE^E. 



Family TURDIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Turdus. (Linnceus.) 



PALE THRUSH. 



Turdus pallidus. 



Turdus pallidus, 



pallens, 



iliacus-pallidus, 



Seyffertitzii, 



Werneri, 



Merle blafard, 

 Blass drossel, 



Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 

 Latham; 1790. 



Temminck; 1835. Bonaparte. 

 Keyseeling and Blasius. 

 Schinz. Degland. 

 Pallas; Zoog, i, p. 457. 

 Schlegel; 1844 

 ISTaumann; xi, p. 279. 

 Beehm; Vog. Dentschl., p. 387. 

 Gene; Mem. Acad Tor., xxxvii, 



p. 291. 

 Of the Feench. 

 Of the Gebmans. 



Specific Characters. — Distinguished from all other Thrushes by 

 wanting absolutely the black spots on the crop and sides. Length 

 seven inches and a quarter. Tail three inches. Wings in repose 

 reach to half length of tail. Tarsi thirteen lines. — Gene. 



This is another of the Eastern Thrushes, occurring 

 accidentally in Europe. Temminck, in his "Manual" 

 in 1835, states that only three specimens have been 



