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nidification until Mr. Popham found a nest containing eggs in 

 the Yenesei valley and shot the female as she left her nest. 

 These eggs so closely resemble some of those of T. dubius, that 

 it is scarcely possible to identify them unless by obtaining the 

 parent bird. 



11. GOULD'S THRUSH. 

 TURDUS GOULDI. 



Turdus gouldi, Terr. Nonv. Arcliiv. Mns. Hist. Nat. vi. Bull. p. 34, 

 (1870) ; Prjev. in Kowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 198 ; David and Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 148, pi. xxxiv ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 

 260 ; Pleske, Prjevalsky's Eeisen, Vogel, ii. p. 18. 



( ad. (Mongolia). Head and neck slaty brown, crown, darker, back, 

 scapulars, and rump rich chestnut ; wings and tail blackish brown ; under 

 part chestnut, the centre of abdomen dirty white ; under wing-coverts 

 chestnut, under tail-coverts varied black, white, and chestnut ; bill yellow ; 

 legs pale brown ; iris brown. Culmen T06, wing 5'6, tail 4'7, tarsus 1*4 inch. 

 The female is paler and duller, and has the throat finely streaked 

 with dull white. The male nestling has the head and neck blackish with 

 brown margins, sides of neck and cheeks tinged with dull yellowish white ; 

 upper parts rusty-red, nape and tail-coverts brownish, all with white 

 or reddish white shaft stripes and black tips ; throat yellowish white ; 

 under parts irregularly banded with black and yellowish ochreous ; bill 

 brown, lighter towards the tip ; legs pale brownish. The female nestling 

 is paler, the crown, nape, and hind neck are earth-brown, the throat is 

 white, striped with black on the sides ; under parts ochreous, the breast 

 and flanks washed with rusty-red, and breast and abdomen barred with 

 blackish brown. The young bird has the bill brown, lighter towards the 

 tip, legs light brown. 



Hob. Kansu, Western Szechuen, and Moupin, where it is 

 common. 



In summer it inhabits the forests high up in the moun- 

 tains, descending to the valleys in winter when it is often 

 seen near human habitations. It is said to breed in the thickets 

 which fringe the mountain streams but its nest and eggs are 

 unknown. Its song is said to resemble that of Turdus merula 

 but is harsher and less silvery in tone. When in company with 

 its young it utters a call like that of Lanms tephronotus. 



