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Turdus pallidus: fjPaZLJ
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J-e Merle btaiard.
The ^laim of ibis bird to aqdacc in the Fauna of Europe, says M. Tetnmtnck, (from whom we received
the specimen from which our figure was taken,) is based on the .capture of three individuals, out? .¡¿i.' whieb was
taken in September 1823, near Hereberg in Saxony. It is one of the m m j discoveries mnule -5>y IfyUas,. #hofte
merits as a naturalist are too well known to require our praise.
Like the Tardus Sibericus this bird is extremely common in Japan, whence, through the kindness of
M. Temminck, we have received several examples: it is abo spread over the whole of Siberia, and occasionally
passes'the boundary line and visits the centre of Europe.
Of its habits, manners, and nidification nothing is known,, but in these respects it doubtless closely resem-
The whole of the upper surface is of an olive brown; ear-coverts brown with a faint line of white down the
-«jtatlie of each feather; sips of the wing-coverts yellowish, ferming a band acrosit the wing; sides of the
throat pale reddish brown blotched with white j chess and flanks pa^i reddbh brown, the former ©¡mainented
Vtth ntliueroos spots of a darker thd t ;fhro*»t, eehW-it1 o f abdomen, aw«}.- ajt^fcr rWi«coveii* white; two
outer tail-feathers wfom».h ow the«1 ¡mwjt web ; -‘¡di -ii»d feet %&* txm-'ii,
■ We posse»» ©the* ^ P |W l i '*»• <4$% dS* m i fbeltofo«« ¡sro | | | p | f tinm t &!jk|
abdomen i* less- wire; -ti$i # ! to det^pf^eif.
We have figured the bird ii» §S$|f| If &v dw«t
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