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Indian and Australian regions, and the species inhabiting these 
areas are mostly stationary, or at best only slightly migratory 
within the limits of the regions they inhabit. White’s Thrush, 
which comes to England occasionally, is, on the contrary, 
a decidedly migratory bird, breeding in Eastern Siberia, and 
wending its way south in winter to Japan, South China, and 
the Philippines. It has fourteen tail feathers instead of 
twelve, as in the majority of Thrushes, a peculiarity which 
it shares with Oreocichla horsfieldii of Java and O. hancii of 
Formosa. 
white’s thrush, oreocichla varia. 
Turdus varius, Pall. Zoogr., Rosso-Asiat., i., p. 449 (1S11); 
Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 146 (1839); Newt. ed. Yarn, i., p. 25 i 
(1872); Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 77, pi. 10 (1878); B. O. U. 
List Br. B., p. 3 (1883); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. iii. 
(1886); Saunders, Man., p. 11 (1889). 
Geocichla varia , Seeb., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., v., p. 151 (1881); 
id. Br. B., i., p. 200 (1883). 
Adult Male. — General colour above ochreous-brown, varied 
with black circular margins to the feathers, all of which have 
whitish shaft-lines, and a golden buff subterminal shade; this 
banded plumage somewhat closer on the head, and the spots 
smaller; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median- coverts 
blackish, with broad ochraceousends; the greater series blackish, 
externally paler brown, with slightly indicated buff tips; bastard- 
wing-feathers light brown ; primary-coverts brown at bases, golden- 
buff in the centre, and black at the ends, forming a well-marked 
pattern on the wing ; quills brown, the primaries light brown 
at the base, the feathers being here ochreous-brown externally, 
the centre of the primaries dark brown nearly to the edge, and 
the pale edge increasing towards the end of the quills ; the 
secondaries blackish with a tip of golden buff, and with an in- 
dentation of ochreous-buff on the margin near the end ; four 
centre tail-feathers (fourteen in numberjlight brown, without pale 
tips, the rest blackish, externally ochreous-brown, the feathers 
tipped with white, the outer ones more broadly : sides of face 
pale ochreous-buff, the feathers edged with black, and a black 
spot behind the ear-coverts; cheeks white, spotted with black, 
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