NAUM ANN'S THRUSH. 37 



mSECTIVOR^. 



Family TURDID^. 



Genus Turdus. 



NAUMANN'S THRUSH. 



Turdus Naumannii. 



Turdus Naumannii, Temminck; Man., 1820. Bonaparte. 



" " ScHiNz. Keyserling and Blasius. 



'■ " SCHLEGEL. NaUMANN, pi. 87, 2. 



" dubius, Bonaparte. Sclater; Ibis, 1862. 



Gray; H. L., No. 3674. 



Merle Naumann, Of the French. 



Nauniann^ Drossel, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage ash-coloured red above ; in the adult marked 

 below with large red spots fringed with white, and in the young with 

 triangular spots of blackish brown. Length ten inches. 



This is said to be one of the Asiatic Thrushes discovered and 

 designated by Pallas, Turdus fuscatus. Temminck described it 

 in his "Manual" of 1820 as T. Naumannii, after the distinguished 

 ornithologist of that name. Mr. Gould, in his "Birds of Europe," 

 adopts Temminck's name, and gives the figure of a bird from the 

 Museum of Munich. In his "Birds of Asia" he restores the name of 

 Pallas — T. fuscatus. Gould's two figures dilFer considerably, and I 

 am not aware that Temminck ever admitted that the bird he described 

 as Naumannii was identical with the fuscatus of Pallas. 



T. Naumannii is an inhabitant of Siberia, Japan, and China; it 

 occurs accidentally in Silesia and Austria, more commonly in Hun- 

 gary, and in the Amoor Land. It is also found occasionally in 

 Dalmatia and the centre of Italy. 



