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WHITE’S THRUSH. 
Turdus Whifei, Eyton. Gould. Yarrell. 
Turdus—A Thrush. Whitei—Of White. 
A specimen of this bird was shot by Lord Malmesbury 
at Herons Court, his seat near Christchurch, Hampshire, on 
the 24th. of January, 1828. Another is said to have been 
killed in the Hew Forest in the same county, by one of the 
Forest keepers, but in the absence of names or dates nothing 
conclusive can be said about it. Closely allied species are 
natives of remote Japan and Java, and two specimens of the 
former are related to have been obtained in Europe, on the 
banks of the Elbe, but as Mr. Yarrell says that the wing 
of one of them is longer than in the Japanese bird, it may 
belong to a distinct species. Mr. Yarrell further remarks that 
one of the two European ones, and one from Japan, appear 
to be identical with Lord Malmesbury’s specimen, and that 
another from Australia seems to agree with that said to have 
been procured in the New Forest. If however Tacts are 
stubborn things’ so are measurements; for not to lay stress 
on the difference between the respective lengths of each 
individual bird referred to, only two of which, the Australian 
and the Japanese one, are alike in this respect, the others 
being more or less widely different from these and from each 
other, measuring severally twelve inches and a half, twelve 
inches, eleven inches and a half, ^and ten inches and three 
quarters in length, the comparative anatomy, so to call it, 
of each, is also dissimilar: thus, in Lord Malmesbury’s 
specimen, the second and fourth quill feathers are of equal 
length, and in the Japanese bird the third and fourth, in the 
one from Java the second and sixth are equal, in that from 
Australia the third, fourth, and fifth, are nearly equal, and 
in the one said to have been met with in the New Forest 
the third and fifth are equal. Mr. Gouid also observes that 
