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southern portion of the Palsearctic region furnishes any authen- 

 ticated species besides those ah-eady enumerated, except the very 

 singular hook-winged Blackbird, Turdus dachjlojiterus {Merula 

 dactijloptera, Bp.), which is found in Asia Minor. We may 

 therefore take the well-ascertained species of the genus belong- 

 ing to the Palsearctic region as about sixteen in number, distri- 

 buted somewhat as follows : — 



Let us next take a glance at the Thrushes of the Indian 

 region. On the southern slopes of the Himalayas we find three 

 species intruding from Northern Asia — Turdus fuscatus, T. 

 atrigularis, and T. ruficollis, and besides these, Turdus hodgsoni 

 (hardly distinct from our Missel-Thrush), T. albocinctus (repre- 

 senting our T. torquatus), and Turdi casianeus, boulboul, wai'dii, 

 dissimilis, pelodes, and unicolor. In the peninsula of India we 

 meet with Turdi simillimus and nigropileus, whilst Turdus wardii 

 also occurs there, and in the cold season T. dissimilis " is not 

 rare in Lower Bengal*." The Ceylonese species of true Thrush 

 appear to be T. wardii and T. kinnisii, the latter representing 

 T. simillimus of India and our T. merula. 



In the Malayan portion of the Indian region Thrushes are 

 much less numerous. Turdus rufulus [T. modestus, Eyt.) is 

 the only Thrush I have ever noticed in collections from Malacca. 

 This bird, which, according to Mr. Blyth, ascends the peninsula 

 as high up as Arracan (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 144), is 

 * Blyth in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 145. 



