white's thrush. 
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hood of Bandon, county of Cork. It is said in the Fauna of Cork, 
that the gentleman at whose place the bird was obtained, saw 
what he believed to be another of the same species there; but 
when, is not mentioned. 
Two specimens, at most, of T. Whitei have been obtained in 
Great Britain, and both in Hampshire. The one which has 
served for the descriptions and figures of the species was shot 
by Lord Malmesbury in January, 1828. The Irish specimen is 
similar to it. The following notes upon this bird were made in 
Dublin in September, 1845, when a comparison was also drawn 
up between it and a thrush from Nepal, so far as the imperfect 
specimens would admit : — the Irish bird wants the head and neck ; 
the Nepal one, the legs. The latter specimen was presented by 
Mr. Hodgson to the museum of Trinity College, Dublin, under 
the name of Oreocincla Whitei, and noted as a duplicate of one 
(and numbered 194), which he had presented to the British 
Museum collection. 
Irish 
Nepal 
specimen 
specimen 
Length of wing . . 
6^ inches 5|- 
First quill feather about equally short in both . 
1st quill, tip from carpus, 

H 
3rd quill (longest), exceeding 4th (next in length) 
T2 
55 
55 
2nd 
2 
To 
3 
1 0 
4th „ 
55 
5th 
A 
TS 
I * 
TO 
5th „ 
55 
6th 
6 
TO 
5 
1 0 
6th „ 
5 ) 
7th 
s 
nr 
2nd „ 
55 
5 th 
3 
T 
4th „ 
55 
2nd 
i 
Tarsus 
The tail of the Irish bird in length and size generally, exceeds 
that of the Nepal one, as much proportionally as the wing. In 
colouring and marking the two birds are similar, — agreeing with 
the descriptions and figures of Eyton and Yarrell, — with the 
* This trivial difference is exceeded by one half in the other wing of the same speci- 
men. In the one wing, the third and fourth quills are of equal length ; in the other, 
the fourth exceeds the third by one-twelfth of an inch. 
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