TURDIN^.. 



THE BLACK-THROATED THRUSH. 



TuRDUS ATRiGULARis, Temminck. 



The first recorded occurrence of this eastern species in Britain 

 was a young male, obtained in the flesh by Mr. T. J. Monk of 

 Lewes, shot near that town on December 23rd, 1868. Subse- 

 quently, in 'The Ibis' for October 1889, the late Lt.-Col. H. M. 

 Drummond-Hay stated that he had identified an example of this 

 species, shot by Mr. Robert Gloag after a prolonged snowstorm, 

 on the banks of the Tay, in February 1879, when it was in company 

 with another bird of the same kind ; it has been presented to the 

 Museum at Perth. 



It is not improbable that other stragglers to this country may 

 have been overlooked, for the species has several times occurred at 

 no great distance from our shores. In December 1S86 an example 

 was obtained in Norway ; one has been taken in Denmark, several 

 in Northern Germany, Belgium, and France, and at least three in 

 Tyrol and Northern Italy. In Central and Eastern Europe its 

 occurrences, as might naturally be expected, become more frequent 

 in proportion as its Siberian home is approached ; nevertheless it 

 has only once been obtained in the Caucasian district, near Len- 

 koran. Beyond the Ural Mountains the species becomes more 

 abundant, breeding in Eastern Turkestan up to an elevation of 



