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come from Japan, and to be identical with T. 

 varius, Pallas, has since been ascertained to have 

 come from Australia, and to be T. lunulatus, Latham. 

 The late Mr. Gurney, however, informed me 

 that he had seen T. varius from Japan ; and Swinhoe 

 obtained it in Formosa, giving it at first the name 

 of T. hancii, which he afterwards withdrew. 



BLACK-THROATED THRUSH. Turdiis atrigularis, 

 Temminck. Length, 915 in. ; bill, 0*9 in. ; wing, 5-4 

 in.; tarsus, 1*25 in. 



Hah. Central Siberia, between lat. 60° and 63°, winter- 

 ing in Turkestan and Northern India. 



One near Lewes, Sussex, Dec. 23, 1868 : Gould, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 128 ; Dawson Rowley, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 4, 

 and Monk, Zool., 1869, p. 1560. In the collection of 

 Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes. 



One near Perth, Feb. 1879 ; Drummond Hay, Ibis, Oct. 

 1889. In the Edinburgh Museum. 



Obs. This eastern species of Thrush has been 

 found as a wanderer not only in the British Islands, 

 but in Russia, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, France, 

 and Italy. The first recorded British specimen was 

 kept alive for some time in the late Mr. T. J. 

 Monk's aviary at Lewes. 



SIBERIAN THRUSH. Turdus sibiricus, Pallas. PI. 6, 

 figs. 8, 9. Length 9 in. ; bill, 0*8 in. ; wing, 4*65 in. ; 

 tarsus, 1 in. 



Hab. Siberia and Japan, wintering in China, Burma, 

 Sumatra, and Java. 



One between Guildford and Godalming (or near Farn- 

 ham, Jide Gurney, Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, iv. p. 629), 



