THE DUSKY THRUSH. 



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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 juscatus* Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat., I, p. 451, pi. xn (1827 



Transbaikalia). 



Turdus fu8catu8 = T. dubius, Musters, Bull. B.O.C., xvi, p. 45 ; Saunders, 



Brit. B., i, p. 5. 



The Dusky Thrusli (Turdus eunomus). 



DESCRIPTION Adult male. Winter. Crown, nape, mantle and 

 scapulars brown-black to dark brown, feathers edged dull buffish- 

 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 ; upper 

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

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

 lores and ear -co verts 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 juscatus Pallas 1827 is preoccupied by Turdus juscatus Vieillot, 

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

 Santo Domingo). 



