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HISTORY OF 
WHITE’S THRUSH. 
Turdus JVhitei. Nobis. 
We are indebted to the Earl of Malmsbury for being able to 
insert a cut of the above bird in our work. His specimen is the 
only one that has been obtained, that we are aware of, in the 
British Isles, and was originally supposed to be identical with 
Turdus Varius, described and figured in Dr. Horsfield’s “ Zoo- 
logical Researches in Java.” It was killed, Lord Malmsbury 
informs us, by him, on the 24th of January, 1828. It attracted 
his attention, on disturbing it, in passing through a plantation, 
where it appeared to have established its haunt in a high furze 
brake, as it returned to it repeatedly before he could succeed in 
shooting it. Its flight was undulating, similar to that of a 
Misseltoe Thrush, of which, when he first saw it on wing, he 
