410 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



fine. Average of 80 eggs, 27.8x20.6 mm. Breeding-season. 

 From May 10 to mid-June on the Amur. Incubation. No details. 



FOOD. Worms, insects, seeds and berries, but details lacking. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One near Gunthorpe (Notts.), Oct. 13, 

 1905 (ut supra}. A " party " (six obtained) in neighbourhood 

 of Hollington and Crowhurst (Sussex), Jan. 25 to March 3, 1915 

 (H. W. Ford-Lindsay, Brit. B., vra, p. 267). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Siberia, wintering in China, north-west 

 India to Assam. Occasionally in Europe : Italy, south France, 

 Russia, probably Germany, Heligoland (once), Belgium, Holland, 

 Denmark, Norway. 



TURDUS RUFICOLLIS 



171. Turdus ruficollis atrogularis Temm. THE BLACK- 

 THROATED THRUSH. 



TURDXJS ATROGULABIS Temminck, Man. d'Orn., i, p. 169 (1820 Austria 



and Silesia). 



Turdus atrigularis Temminck, Yarrell, i, p. 276 ; Saunders, p 9. 



The Black- throated Thrush (Turdm r. atrogularis). First winter male. 



DESCRIPTION. Adult male. Winter. Whole crown and nape 

 greyish-brown (sometimes olive-brown) feathers with blackish 

 centres, in some individuals showing very little, but in others well 

 marked and extending sometimes to upper mantle ; rest of upper- 

 parts uniform grey-brown (sometimes olive-brown) ; ear-coverts as 

 mantle ; lores, narrow line over eyes, cheeks, whole chin, throat and 



