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thought it a variety. It is a female, was solitary, and, notwith- 
standing the season of the year, was plump and heavy. 
Two specimens, similar to the above bird, have, we under- 
stand, been obtained by the Zoological Society of London from 
the neighbourhood of Hamburgh. Mr. Yarrell, to whom we 
are indebted for this information, compared a drawing of ours, 
copied from a very beautiful one by Mr. John Curtis, and a 
description of Lord Malmsbury’s bird, with the specimens above 
mentioned, and found them to coincide. 
Lord Malmsbury’s bird was killed near Heron Court, his 
Lordship’s seat in Hampshire ; on which account we have ven- 
tured to propose the specific appellation of Whitei, in memory 
of one with whom every body is familiar by name, the late 
Gilbert White, author of “ White’s Natural History of Sel- 
borne,” a work which has and will afford many hours amuse- 
ment and instruction to hundreds, and is deservedly classed 
among our standard books on British natural history. 
The general colour of White’s Thrush, on the upper surface, 
is ochraceous yellow, with a greenish tinge on the crown ; tips 
of all the feathers, black, or dusky, forming narrow transverse 
lunated spots ; auriculars, with a black line extending from the 
occiput over their posterior edges. Under surface, white, with 
an ill-defined ochraceous fascia across the breast ; all the 
feathers tipped with a black or dusky lunule, within which is 
one of light ochraceous ; the throat and under coverts, pure 
white. Thighs, dusky. Quills, tipped with light ochraceous; 
the edges of each exterior web, near the point and the base, 
marked with an elongated patch of the same colour, presenting, 
when the wing is partly closed, the appearance of two transverse 
fasciae across the whole of the quill feathers ; spurious wing, 
ochraceous, tipped with black ; greatest wing coverts, with the 
