TURDIN.K. 



THE BLACK-THROATED THRUSH. 



TuRDUS ATRiGULARis, Temminck. 



A young male of this eastern species was obtained in the flesh by 

 Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes, shot near that town on December 23rd, 

 1868 ; and it is not improbable that other stragglers to this country may 

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

 no great distance from our shores. In December, 18S6, an example 

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

 Heligoland, 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 ap- 

 proached ; nevertheless it has only once been obtained in the Cauca- 

 sian district, near Lenkoran. Beyond the Ural ^Mountains it becomes 

 more abundant, breeding in Eastern Turkestan up to an elevation of 

 4,000 feet, and probably in the valley of the Obb ; and althougli 

 too late for eggs, Mr. Seebohm obtained three young not fully- 

 fledged in the valley of the Yenesei between 60*^ and 63° N. lat, 

 early in August. Herr Tancre's collectors have obtained a series of 

 eggs in the Altai ^Mountains wliich "exhibit the same variation in 



