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and having a narrow inoiistachial line of black; throat white, 
as also the abdomen and under tail-coverts; the fore-neck, 
breast, and sides of body with crescent-shaped black edges, 
before which is a subterminal shade of golden-buff, narrower 
than on the upper surface; sides of the upper breast light 
brown with white shaft-lines and the same margins as the rest 
of the flanks ; under wing-coverts black, the axillaries white 
with the terminal half black ; quills dusky brown below, with 
a broad white band across the base of the inner web of the 
quills ; bill dark brown, paler below ; feet yellowish brown : iris 
dark brown. Total length, ir8 inches; cuirnen, 11 ; wing, 6-4 ; 
tail, 4'i ; tarsus, t'35. 
Adult Female. — Similar in plumage to the male. Total length, 
11 inches; wing, 6.0. 
Range in Great Britain. — An accidental visitor in late autumn 
and winter. The species has occurred at least a dozen times 
or more, most of the captures having been made in England, 
but one instance is known from Berwickshire, and three from 
Ireland. The first time that it was met with in England was 
in 1828, when a specimen obtained in Hampshire was described 
as Turdus whitei by Eyton, who believed it to be a new species, 
and named it in honour of Gilbert White of Selborne. The 
title of White’s Thrush, thus acquired, has been universally 
recognised by British naturalists, and may well commemorate 
the name of an observer of bird-life, than whom no one is more 
venerated in this country at the present day. 
Range outside the British Islands. — White’s Thrush is a Siberian 
bird, breeding in the south-eastern and south-central districts 
of Siberia, in China north of the Yangtze, and probably in 
Japan. It winters in Southern China and the Philippine 
Islands, and it is at the latter season of the year that specimens 
occur in Europe. The species has been obtained in Norway 
and Sweden and as far south as Italy and the Pyrenees, but it 
is in Heligoland that it most frequently occurs, and no one 
who has visited that island can forget the sight of the beautiful 
specimens in Gaetke’s Museum, all in perfect plumage, and 
mounted by the hands of the old naturalist himself. 
HaMts. — Not much has been recorded of the habits of 
White’s Thrush beyond the fact that it seems to be essentially 
