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T. naumannl ; and finally, Naumann abandoned his belief 

 and adopted the name T.atrigularis, which has a clear priority 

 though who should be considered its donor is not so 

 certain. The German ornithologists generally ascribe the 

 name to Natterer, who is said, and probably with truth, to 

 have been the first to recognize and point out the characters 

 of the species ; but all seem to admit that he never pub- 

 lished any notice of it, and thus his claim to acknowledg- 

 ment must yield to that of Temminck, as previously quoted. 



The foregoing figure and the following description of 

 this species are taken from a Siberian specimen in the 

 Museum of the University of Cambridge : Above, almost 

 uniform olive-grey, rather darker on the head, and having 

 a slightly rufous tinge on the quills, the shafts of which are 

 liver-brown. Lores and ear-coverts blackish ; above the 

 eye a short dirty- white streak. Chin dirty white ; throat 

 and chest dull brownish-black, the feathers edged and tipped 

 with dirty white ; breast and belly dull white with ill-defined 

 dusky streaks ; lower tail-coverts white varied by irregular 

 and suifused streaks of reddish-brown ; flanks dull hair- 

 brown ; axillaries and lower wing-coverts dull reddish- 

 orange ; quills beneath brownish-grey. Whole length about 

 nine inches and a half : wing from the carpal joint five inches 

 and three-eighths. Mr. Jerdon states that the bill is yellow, 

 dusky at the tip ; the orbits yellow ; the legs honey-yellow- 

 brown ; the irides dark brown. 



Col. Tytler (Ibis, 1869, p. 124) gives descriptions of five 

 specimens two adult and two young males, and one adult 

 female, whence it would appear that the old males have an 

 almost black gorget, while this part in the younger males 

 and the female is more or less varied by dull white, and in 

 .the last the markings beneath are more clearly defined.* 



* Mr. Bond possesses a specimen of Turdus sibiricus, sold to him some years 

 ago by a dealer who said it was shot in Surrey. He considered it a dark variety 

 of the Redwing, and such it was thought to be until its true character was re- 

 cognized by Mr. Blyth. This is another of those eastern species which frequently 

 find their way to western Europe, and there seems no reason why the man's story 

 should not be true. The absence of all details of the bird's capture in this 

 country may, however, .excuse any further mention of it here. 



