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  White's 
  Thrush 
  in 
  European 
  Russia. 
  

  

  in 
  1890j 
  I 
  was 
  told 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Kovtzov, 
  of 
  Tiumen^ 
  that 
  

   White's 
  Ground-Thrush 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  straggler 
  to 
  the 
  southern 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  Government 
  of 
  Tobolsk, 
  and 
  is 
  common 
  

   in 
  the 
  northern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Province 
  of 
  Admalinsk, 
  

   whence 
  a 
  skin 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  me 
  for 
  identification. 
  

   I 
  have 
  now 
  the 
  pleasure 
  of 
  making 
  known 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  

   Turdus 
  varius 
  probably 
  breeds 
  in 
  the 
  Ural 
  Mountains. 
  

   In 
  the 
  year 
  1891 
  a 
  young 
  zoologist^ 
  Mr. 
  Sushkin, 
  was 
  

   sent 
  by 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Society 
  of 
  Naturalists 
  of 
  Moscow 
  to 
  

   collect 
  birds 
  in 
  the 
  Government 
  of 
  Ufa. 
  A 
  large 
  series 
  

   of 
  about 
  900 
  skins 
  and 
  many 
  skeletons 
  were 
  brought 
  

   home 
  by 
  this 
  gentleman 
  from 
  his 
  expedition, 
  and 
  the 
  

   greatest 
  prize 
  of 
  this 
  collection 
  was 
  a 
  beautiful 
  skin 
  of 
  

   White's 
  Ground-Thrush 
  received 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Sushkin 
  from 
  a 
  

   sportsman 
  who 
  had 
  the 
  good 
  fortune 
  to 
  secure 
  it 
  in 
  July 
  of 
  

   1887 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Zlatoust. 
  Unfortunately 
  

   the 
  sex 
  of 
  this 
  specimen, 
  which 
  was 
  regarded 
  by 
  the 
  sports- 
  

   man 
  as 
  nothing 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  pretty 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  Missel- 
  

   Thrush, 
  was 
  undetermined. 
  A 
  second 
  specimen 
  of 
  White's 
  

   Ground-Thrush 
  obtained 
  in 
  Russia 
  is 
  a 
  female, 
  procured 
  in 
  

   August 
  1891 
  near 
  Perm. 
  The 
  fortunate 
  possessor 
  of 
  this 
  

   skin, 
  a 
  well-known 
  explorer 
  of 
  the 
  Government 
  of 
  Perm, 
  

   Mr. 
  Teplouchov, 
  has 
  sent 
  it 
  to 
  me 
  for 
  identification. 
  A 
  third 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  this 
  Thrush 
  was 
  obtained 
  in 
  August 
  1892 
  in 
  the 
  

   fir-forests, 
  at 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  twenty 
  versts 
  from 
  Krasno-Ufimsk 
  

   (Government 
  of 
  Perm), 
  by 
  a 
  Tartar, 
  and 
  was 
  purchased 
  in 
  

   the 
  flesh 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Kniipfer, 
  a 
  teacher 
  in 
  the 
  Industrial 
  School 
  

   in 
  that 
  town. 
  Thanks 
  to 
  ISIr. 
  Kniipfer, 
  this 
  skin 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  

   my 
  possession. 
  Judj^ing 
  from 
  the 
  dates 
  of 
  the 
  occurrences 
  of 
  

   the 
  first 
  and 
  third 
  specimens, 
  I 
  think 
  that 
  White's 
  Ground- 
  

   Thrush 
  probably 
  breeds 
  in 
  the 
  woods 
  of 
  the 
  Ural 
  Mountains. 
  

   But, 
  however 
  this 
  may 
  be, 
  we 
  have 
  now 
  at 
  any 
  rate 
  a 
  right 
  

   to 
  include 
  Turdus 
  varius 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  Russian 
  birds. 
  

  

  