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pale yellowish red, tinged in front with blue, and beneath 
yellow; the heel yellow. 
After the first autumnal moult the plumage is complete. 
Individuals of this species vary, as will appear, very 
considerably in size. In the autumn the feathers have become 
more or less ragged and worn, and all the colours have faded 
considerably, the brown into grey, and the yellow into greyish 
white. 
Mr. Bix, of Bongate, writes me word of white Thrushes 
found twu successive years in that neighbourhood, the one nest 
being within forty yards of the preceding one. The former 
contained four young, two of them white with red eyes, and 
the other two of the common colour. The latter had also 
four young, one of them white, and three of the proper colour; 
the eyes of the latter, which was kept alive, became afterwards 
darker; so also Dr. Henry Moses, of Appleby, Westmoreland, 
tells me that last year a Thrush’s nest was found in that 
neighbourhood with three cream-coloured and two usual- 
coloured young ones, and that this year five were found in 
a nest all cream-coloured: in one which was taken and kept 
alive the eyes were scarlet. 
J. W. Lukis, Esq. has forwarded me a curious variety of 
the young of this species, which is all over of a light yellowish 
brown colour, the breast shewing incipient marks of the usual 
Spots. There was another of the same colour in the nest, one 
Of which was left with its parents, which were of' the ordinary 
colour, and was brought up by them; the other, the one in 
question, was kept alive for a month with care. Another, an 
old bird, was observed at the same time, and the same place, 
Heacham Hall, near Lynn, Norfolk, with white feathers in its 
l&il. 
