46 RED-NECKED THRUSH. 



INSECTIVOU^. 



Family TURDIDJ^. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Turdus. fLinnceus.J 



RED-NECKED THRUSH. 



Turdus rujicollis. 



Turdus rujicollis, Pallas; Zool. Rosso Asiat., i., p. 452, 



No. 93, pi. xxiii. 

 Gmelin. LiNNiEUS; Syst., i., c. z, 



p. 815, No. 47. 

 Naumann; Vogel Deutsch, vol. 13, 



p. 317, pi. 360. 

 Radde; Reisen im Suden Siberien. 



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Specific Characters. — " Magnitudo turdi viscivori. Color supra ut in eodem. 

 Subtus collum jugulumque totum intense rufum ; pectus et abdomen alba, 

 immaculata. Cauda aequalis, rufa, rectricibus duabus intermedins cinereis." 

 — Pallas, Voyages, App. par H. C. Lamarck, p. 47. 



This bird has been captured once in a young state near Dresden, 

 (Naumann) and once at Heligoland, and therefore is entitled to 

 admission into this work. 



T. rujicollis is a native of Northern Asia, and has been described 

 and figured by E,adde from Southern Siberia. It is also found in 

 China, where it has been called by Swinhoe the "E,ed-tailed Fieldfare," 

 but it already had the characteristic name of " E,ed-necked Thrush," 

 given to it by its discoverer Pallas, who found it inhabiting the high 

 Alps of the Dauria near the torrents, but it was very rare. 



Naumann, in the supplementary volume of the Vogel Deutschlands, 

 has figured the adult male as above described, except that he makes 

 the abdomen dirty white above and dusky grey inferiorly with longi- 



