THE DUSKY THRUSH. 407 



east Prussia, wintering in south Europe and north-west Africa, 

 Persia and north-west India. Casual Greenland and Spitsbergen 

 and Madeira ; occasional Canaries. 



TURDUS EUNOMUS 



170. Turdus eunomus Temm. — THE DUSKY THRUSH. 



TuRDUs EUNOMUS Temminck, PI. col. 514 (1830 — Japan). 



Turdus fuscatus* Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat., i, p. 451, pi. xii (1827 — 



Transbaikalia). 



Turdtis fiiscatus—T. duhius. Musters, Bull. B.O.C., xvi, p. 45 ; Saunders, 



Brit. B., I, p. 5. 



The Dusky Thrusli (Turdus emimnus;). 



Description — Adult male. Winter. — Crown, nape, mantle and 

 scapulars brown-black to dark broAvn, feathers edged dull bufiish- 

 grey with varying amount of rusty-brown or chestnut -brown 

 on mantle and scapulars ; back and rump with more chestnut - 

 brown and sometimes mostly chestnut with little black ; uj^per 

 tail-coverts blacker ; broad and conspicuous stripe from nostrils, 

 over and behind eye to back of skull dull white tinged cream ; 

 lores and ear-coverts brown -black ; cheeks and sides of neck and 

 sides of throat creamy -white, spotted brown-black ; chin and 

 centre of throat same but without spots or with a few very small 

 ones ; breast brown-black to rusty-black largely concealed by 

 white fringes to feathers ; centre of breast and belly white ; sides 



* Turdus fuscatus Pallas 1827 is preoccupied by Turdus fuscatus Yie\]\ot, 

 Hist. Nat. Ois. Amerique Sept., 11, pi. 57 bis and text (1808 — Porto Rico and 

 Santo Domingo). 



