white’s thrush. 
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the bill in the European specimen is not so large as in the 
Asiatic ones. I cannot therefore speak with any degree of 
certainty as to the specific identity or dissimilarity of these 
different individuals, but all that I can suggest is that they 
may belong to two or more different, but closely allied 
species; the outward appearance of each one is very much, I 
believe, that of the others. 
The following is the description from Yarrell of the British 
specimen, which, as having been procured in Hampshire, was 
named after the Rev. Gilbert White, of Selborne, by T. C. 
Eyton, Esq., of Eyton, Shropshire:—Length, one foot’ and 
half an inch; bill, dark brown, except the base of the under 
mandible, which is pale yellow brown: the space between the 
bill and the eye is pale brown, and from the lower edge of 
the under mandible descends a narrow dark streak. Iris, 
hazel; head on the back, yellow brown, the feathers tipped 
with black; neck in the front, white, the feathers tipped 
with crescent-shaped black spots; nape, yellow brown, the 
feathers tipped with black. Chin and throat, white; breast, 
white, with a tinge of yellowish brown, all the feathers tipped 
with a black crescent; back, yellow brown, darker than on 
the head, the feathers tipped in the form of a crescent with 
black, the shaft of each feather yellow. 
The wings are rather short, and do not reach far over the 
tail; greater wring coverts, dark brown with light yellow brown 
ends, forming together two oblique cross bars; lesser wing- 
coverts, also brown, with broad pale yellow ends, the side 
webs black, the shafts yellow brown. Primaries, pale brown 
on the outer web, brownish black on the inner web with 
dark brown ends, the shafts black; the first quill feather is 
very short, the second a little longer than the fifth, the third 
and fourth equal and the longest in the wing; secondaries 
and tertiaries, pale brown on the outer web, brownish black 
on the inner web, with dark brown ends, the shafts black; 
lesser under wing coverts, white at the base, and black at 
the tip. The tail has the four middle feathers uniform pale 
brown, the others darker in the webs, but lighter at the ends, 
and of these the outer ones are the lightest; underneath, it 
is greyish brown, the shafts of the feathers white; upper tail 
coverts, yellow brown, darker than on the head, the feathers 
tipped in the form of a crescent with black, the shaft of 
each feather yellow; under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, 
pale brown; the claws rather lighter. 
