196 PALE THRUSH. 



captured in Europe. He amends, however, this state- 

 ment in 1840, by referring to the memoir of Gene 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 Turin. In 

 this paper Gene at the same time points out the sin- 

 gular mistake of Werner, who figured this bird in the 

 "Atlas" as T. 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 Wemeri, 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 inner 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 



