. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TURDIN^.. WHITE'S THRUSH. TuRDUS VARius, Pallas. This boldly-marked species, rather larger than the Mistle-Thrush, belongs to a group known as the ' Ground' Thrushes {Geocichld), characterized by a partiality for woodland glades, where insects, which constitute their principal food, are obtained among the dead leaves. Owing to this habit, the large size, mottled plumage, and low undulating flight, several of the White's Thrushes obtained in this country have at first been mistaken for Woodcocks. The earliest recorded British example was shot in
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TURDIN^.. WHITE'S THRUSH. TuRDUS VARius, Pallas. This boldly-marked species, rather larger than the Mistle-Thrush, belongs to a group known as the ' Ground' Thrushes {Geocichld), characterized by a partiality for woodland glades, where insects, which constitute their principal food, are obtained among the dead leaves. Owing to this habit, the large size, mottled plumage, and low undulating flight, several of the White's Thrushes obtained in this country have at first been mistaken for Woodcocks. The earliest recorded British example was shot in January, 1828, in Hampshire; receiving a scientific as well as a trivial name in honour of White of Selborne, from Eyton, who supposed the species to be undescribed. Other individuals have since been obtained in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Shrop- shire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorkshire, and Durham; once in Berwick- shire; and in Ireland in counties Cork, Longford, and Mayo. Most of these occurrences have been in the winter, and only one in October. On Heligoland more than a dozen have been taken in September and October, and on the return migration up to the 23rd of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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