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tip of the feather. The edges of the auriculars 
are also tinted with the same colour, and the 
whole under surface presents a rich but chaste 
combination of colours and markings. The under 
wing coverts and axillary feathers are of the 
purest white, serving at once to distinguish the 
Missel- Thrush from any state of the Javanese and 
Indian species somewhat similarly dressed. Legs 
. are pale wood-brown. The length is from eleven 
to eleven and a-half inches, and there is little 
difference either in the size or colours in each 
sex. 
The J'oung have the upper plumage confusedly 
barred with yellowish white, and have more gray 
on the head and neck. The quills and coverts 
have broader pale margins and tips, and the under 
parts have a more yellow tinge. 
White’s Thrush. — Merula Whitei — 
Merula Whitei, White's Thrush. — Turdus Whitei, 
Eyton's Rarer Brit. Birds . — Gould. Yarrell . — 
We have been unable to see any of the specimens 
procured in England of the bird which has been 
figured and described by the above quoted au- 
thors, under the name of White’s Thrush, and 
as there can be no doubt of its being an addition 
to the British Fauna, we give the substance of 
what is known regarding it, acknowledging our 
information to be derived from the descriptions 
of these gentlemen only. The proper situation 
for its introduction seems to be after the Missel- 
Thrush : at the same time there is a considerable 
