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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
" British Birds," and in Saunders' " Manual of British Birds," 
are taken fronn the Earl of Malmesbury's specimen. 
The other specimen mentioned by Wise^ was not 
considered genuine by Professor Newton : — " It will be 
observed that no notice has here been taken of a thrush 
mentioned in former editions of this work as being the 
property of Mr. Bigge, then of Hampton Court, but now 
of Debden Hall, Essex ; who, about the year 1825, bought 
it of a bird-stuffer at Southampton. This specimen is said 
to have been shot in the New Forest by one of the keepers. 
It was unfortunately sold in 1849 with the rest of Mr. 
Bigge's collection, and that gentleman, though he has most 
obligingly made every enquiry, has failed to trace it. It is 
evident it was not a White's Thrush, for, as described in 
former editions of this work, it had the second primary as 
long as the sixth, a character which equally precludes it, 
in the editor's belief, from having been an example of 
Horsfield's Thrush ; while he has been very kindly informed 
by its former possessor that, though he had no reason to 
doubt the bird-stuffer's story, the specimen, when shown to 
Mr. Gould, who still remembers the fact, was found by him 
to have its head stuffed with wool, as was often the case 
with bird-skins prepared in Australia. On the whole, 
therefore, it seems not improbable that though no fraud 
may have been intended, the specimen had been brought 
from that country, and is most prudently to be omitted 
from further consideration." ^ 
It is found in north-east Siberia, China, and Japan. 
^ " New Forest.'' 1862. 
= Yarrell's "British Birds." Fourth Edition. 1871. 
