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but I did not succeed in shooting one until the 19th of June 
It was feeding amongst the dead leaves on the ground in a 
dense birch plantation. It proved to be a fine male in adult 
plumage. I made the following memorandum of the colours 
of the soft parts:—‘ Bill black. Iris dark hazel. Pupil 
blue-black. Legs very light brown, yellower at the back of 
the tarsus and on the soles of the feet.”” In lat. 68° my com- 
panion assured me that he saw one of these very handsome 
birds on the wing; but I did not observe it myself after we 
left the Koo-ray’-i-ka, nor did I observe it at all on the 
return journey. It seems to be a very shy and wary bird, 
and it is evidently a very rare Thrush in the valley of the 
Yen-e-say’. Middendorff does not: mention it; but I heard of 
it from a Polish exile at Toor-o-kansk’ as the Chor’-noi drohzd, 
or Black Thrush. 
TURDUS ATRIGULARIS, T’emm. 
I did not meet with the Black-throated Thrush until the 
6th of August, in lat. 63°, when-I shot two birds in first 
plumage, which puzzled me. Two days later, in lat. 614°, 
I secured a third young bird, and was fortunate enough to 
obtain the adult female also. The chestnut colour of the 
wing-lining and axillaries of the young of this species serve 
to distinguish it from the young of 7’. pilaris and T. obscurus. 
In the young of 7. iliacus the chestnut of the wing-lining 
and axillaries is much deeper in colour, and extends onto the 
flanks, whilst it is scarcely perceptible on the under tail- 
coverts. 
RuriciLya PH@NicuRvS (Linn.). 
My sole authority for including the Common Redstart 
among the birds of the Yen-e-say’ is a fine skin of a young 
Redstart in first plumage, which I shot on the 3rd of August 
in lat. 66°. The plumage of this skin agrees exactly with 
that of the young in first plumage of our bird; and since it 
was found by Harvie Brown and myself in the valley of the 
Petchora in about the same latitude, I see no reason for sus- 
pecting my Yen-e-say’ bird to be the young of any other 
allied species, though it has not hitherto been recorded from 
so far cast, 
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