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Named after Gilbert White (1720 – 1793), an English clergyman and naturalist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
White's thrush
Today it means: A thrush found mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia and rare vagrant to western Europe, of species Zoothera aurea (or formerly, sometimes of subspecies Zoothera dauma aurea). Full definition →