of the Genus Turdus. 197 



throat yellowish white^ spotted with light blackish arrow-heads, 

 which darken and form into a line on each side, with a light 

 orange patch on each side of under nape ; breast smoke-grey, 

 blotched with faded brown ; under wing-coverts, flanks, tibiae, 

 and a line across the lower breast fine orange-bufl"; bill and 

 under tail-coverts pure white." 



" Amor/, 6th March, 1861. — Another male of the above, with 

 the breast-band not fully developed ; bill light brown ; legs and 

 toes brownish flesh-colour, darkest at joints of toes ; angle and 

 inside of mouth orange-yellow." 



" Amoy, 2nd April, 1861. — Old female of the above procured, 

 without breast-band. Length 8; wing 4*4; tail 3. Bill dusky 

 yellow ochre, patched on the tips and base of upper mandible 

 with light brown ; angle and inside of mouth bright yellow ; 

 eyelids pale yellow; legs, toes, and claws brownish ochre, 

 washed with yellow, conspicuously so on the under tarsi. This, 

 on dissection, proved an old female, with numerous eggs in 

 ovary ; epithelium of gizzard of a dusky yellow, rugose, con- 

 taining remains of grubs and beetles." 



In my article on the geographical distribution of the genus 

 Turdus, published in this Journal in 1861 (' Ibis,' 1861, p. 277), 

 I have allotted only six species of Thrush to the column of 

 China. Mr. Swinhoe's discovery of the present species adds a 

 seventh to the list; an eighth will be Turdus ruficoUis (which 

 Mr. Swinhoe's Red-tailed Fieldfare turns out to be *, not 

 T. naumanni as I had anticipated) ; and a ninth, Turdus nau- 

 manni, of which a fine adult Chinese example has been already 

 figured in last year's volume (PI. X.). Mr. Swinhoe's explora- 

 tions in Formosa have also resulted in the discovery of five 

 species of Thrush visiting that island. I have a specimen of 

 Turdus chrysolaus, from Manilla, lent me by Mr. Gould, which 

 further extends the range of the true Turdi (as visitants) in a 

 westerly direction. The present amended table will show at a 

 glance the general distribution of the Thrushes of Eastern Asia, 

 as far as we are at present acquainted with it — the names 

 printed in italics signifying that the species are only winter 

 visitants to the countries to which they refer. 



* See above, p. 196. 



