. A history of British birds . (recently asserted by Drs. Finschand Hartlaub to be identical with the widely spread AfricanP. nigricans) are said by Thompson (B. Ireld. i. p. 154) tohave been obtained for the aviary of the Zoological Gardenat Dublin. This species differs from T. capensis by beingmore slate-coloured above and having the abdomen white;but the fact of its introduction to Ireland as a cage-birdsuggests a possible explanation of the extraordinary occur-rence of Dr. Burkitts example near Waterford. * This group, established in 1825, was no doubt intended (Recueil desOiseaux, livr. 6
. A history of British birds . (recently asserted by Drs. Finschand Hartlaub to be identical with the widely spread AfricanP. nigricans) are said by Thompson (B. Ireld. i. p. 154) tohave been obtained for the aviary of the Zoological Gardenat Dublin. This species differs from T. capensis by beingmore slate-coloured above and having the abdomen white;but the fact of its introduction to Ireland as a cage-birdsuggests a possible explanation of the extraordinary occur-rence of Dr. Burkitts example near Waterford. * This group, established in 1825, was no doubt intended (Recueil desOiseaux, livr. 64) to be identical with the Pjimonotvs of Kuhl, with whose views,though then unpublished, Temminck was clearly acquainted ; but as he selectedfor the type of the former a species which is usually and justifiably considered tobe genetically separable from that of the latter, the two names do not clash, andthere seems to be no reason why both should not stand—each in a restricted sense. WHITES THKUSH. PASSE RES. 251 TTlRDfDJ:.. TuEDUS VAKius, Pallas.*WHITES THKUSH. Tardus Whitei f. TuRDUS, —Bill moderate, straight, convex above ; point of theupper mandible compressed, notched and slightly decurved ; gape furnished witha few hairs. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly closed by a membrane. Wingswith the first feather very short ; the second shorter than the third or fourth,which are generally the longest. Feet with the tarsus longer than the middletoe ; the outer toe connected with the middle toe at the base. By the kind permission of the late Lord Malmesbuiy, Iam enabled to give a figure from a male Thrush shot by himat Heron Court, near Christchurch, January the 24th, 1828,as first announced by Mr. Eyton ; who, believing it to be anew species, conferred upon it, in honour of Gilbert Whiteof Selborne, the names above cited; and his lordship allowed * Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, i. p. 449 (1811).t Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 92 (1836).t Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 291
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