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153. Agrobates galactotes syriacus (Hempr. & Ehr.) — THE 

 BROWN-BACKED WARBLER. 



CuRRUCA GALACTODES VAR. Syriaca Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. 

 Phys., fol. bb (1833— Syria [Beirut]). 



Aedon familiaris, J. B. Nichols, Brit. B., i, p. 257 ; A. F. Griffith, Bull. 

 B.O.C., XXVII, p. 29. A. g. syriacus, Witherby, Brit. B., iv, p. 310. 



Distribution. — England. — Two. Male, Hythe (Kent), July 15, 

 1907. Male, Ninfield (Sussex) May 13, 1910*^(1^^ supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — From south Herzegovina and south 

 Dalmatia throughout Greece and Ionian Islands to x\sia Minor and 

 north Syria, Winters in south Arabia, Somaliland, and east Africa 

 (Mombasa). Replaced in south Caucasus, Persia, Mesopotamia, 

 Transcaspia, Turkestan, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan by A. g. 

 familiaris, which winters in north-west India, Sindh, and Raj- 

 putana, and has been recorded once from Heligoland. 



TURDUS DAUMA 



154. Turdus dauma aureus Hoi.*— WHITE'S THRUSH. 



TuRDUs AUREUS Holandre, Fauna dep. Moselle, in Ann. Moselle 1825, 



p. 60 (Metz). 



Turdus Whitei Eyton, Rarer Brit. B., p. 92 (1836— Christchurch). 



Turdus varius Pallas, Yarrell, i, p. 251 ; Saunders, p. 11. 



T. d. aureus, Hartert, Brit. B., iv, p. 129. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Vagrant. Since the first, near Christ- 

 church (Hants.) Jan. 24, 1828, authentic examples have been 

 recorded, almost all in winter, from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, 

 Gloucester, Salop, Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorks. (five), Durham, Warwick. 

 In Scotland one, Hardacres (Berwick) Dec, 1878. In Ireland 

 three, near Bandon (Cork). Bally mahon (Longford), and Westport 

 (Mayo). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — East Siberia and Japan. Winters in 

 south China and Formosa. Occasionally observed in Philippine 

 Islands, in Pegu, Assam, west Siberia, and various parts of Europe 

 from Urals and Scandinavia to Belgium, France, and Italy. Replaced 

 by other subspecies on Loo Choo (Liu Kiu) Islands, in mountains 

 of Java and Lombok, Himalayas {T. dauma dauma), and south 

 India. 



[XoTE. — An example of the Siberian Thrush, Turdus sihiricus sibiricus 

 Pal., is said to have been shot in Surrey (winter 1860-61) and another to have 

 been picked up at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight (winter 1874), but the evidence 

 is not considered sufficient (c/. Saimders, p. 12). It inhabits Siberia, wintering 

 in eastern India, Andamans, south China, and Greater Sunda Islands. Has 

 been obtained in Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, and Bulgaria.] 



* Holandre's name is two years earlier than Pallas's varius. — E.H. 



