446 Mr. H. E. Dresser on 



(J, f. 0. 1872, p. 441), wliicli I translated in exttnso in my 

 ' Birds of Europe ' in 1878. There 1 also gave some notes 

 from the writings of the late Mr. Seebohm, who found it 

 breeding on the Yenesei in 1877, and took his first nest, 

 containing five eggs, on the 27th of June at Koorayika. Mr. 

 Popham also took three nests at Inbatskaya (lat. 64° N.) 

 on the Yenesei in 1897, and has given (Ibis, 1898, p. 493) 

 full particuhirs respecting the same. 



Tiie nest of this species is either placed near the ground 

 (Mr. Popliam found one on a stump about four feet above 

 it) or ou a branch, or near the main stem of a larch or fir- 

 tree at a height of from 15 to 20 feet, and is, like that of a 

 Fieldfare, strongly built, and lined with fine grass and 

 dry larch-needles. The number of eggs is four or five, 

 seldom six, and they are smaller than any of the others here 

 described, averaging 1*06 by 0-75 in. They are also rather 

 less subject to variation, and are somewhat darker and more 

 blue in ground-colour. One clutch is rather of the Black- 

 bird type, but the rest are more or less spotted and blotched 

 with rusty red. A clutch of four eggs from Darasun in 

 Dauria, received from Dr. Dybowski, closely resemble some 

 of those taken by Mr. Popham on the Yenesei, both in 

 size and coloration, and one of these I have figured (see 

 fig. 8) for comparison. 



TuRDUs ATRiGULARis Temm. Black-throated Thrush. 

 (PL IX. figs. 9-12.) 



Herr Taucre of Anclam received eggs, stated to belong to 

 this Thrush, from his collectors in the Altai Mountains, but 

 they do not appear to have been properly identified ; and the 

 first authenticated eggs were, I believe, those taken by Mr. 

 Popham at Inbatskaya on the Yenesei River in 1897, where 

 he obtained five nests, each containing six eggs. The nests, 

 he writes (Ibis, 1898, p. 494), were " composed of dry grass 

 with a lining of mud and an inner lining of broad dry 

 grass, and all were placed in small fir-trees close to the stem 

 (except one, which was on the top of a stump) at heights 

 varying between 3 feet and 6 feet." This species is said to 



