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Family TURDIDJE, 

 Genus Turdus. 



NAUM ANN'S THEUSH. 



Turdais naumanni, Temminck. 



In vol. i, p. 192, I have introduced the figure and 

 notice of a bird under the above name. The figure is 

 taken from Gould's plate of Turdus fuscatus, which is 

 given as a synonyme, and was at that time considered 

 by Gould and other naturalists as identical with the 

 true T. naumanni, figured in Plate LXVIII of Nau- 

 mann's "Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands/' and 

 fully described at p. 288 of that work. 



The identity of the two species was not however 

 fully admitted by naturalists, and in the continuation of 

 Naumann's work by Professor Blasius, they are described 

 and figured as distinct. I have not been able to consult 

 this volume of the work, but Dr. Sclater has entertained 

 the question in the "Ibis," vol. iv, p. ol9, admitting the 

 correctness of this division, and giving a figure of what 

 he considers the true T. naumanni, from a skin be- 

 longing to Mr. Gould, which was that of a bird shot 

 at Shangai, in March, 1850. 



Mr. Gould has been kind enough to lend me this 

 skin, which is very faithfully copied in the "Ibis." 



