48 BED-NECKED THBU8H. 



E.adde says that all his specimens in the second moult varied in two 

 directions from the plumage of the young. First, by the partial dif- 

 ference of the black spots on the throat and neck^ which are arranged 

 from the gape backwards along the sides of the neck in two separate 

 interrupted lines. Second, by the rusty colour being much deeper on 

 the whole of the under part of the body, with the exception of the 

 middle space on the abdomen. He also considers that there is a third 

 moult, in which the rusty feathers of the flanks become less deep. 

 The eye-streak, he says, is of a rusty yellow, but not so intense and 

 clear as in the full-plumaged bird. 



Dr. Radde saw his first specimen of T. rujicollis on the Tarei-Nor on 

 the 13th. of April, 1856. It was very shy. In 1858 he saw three 

 individuals in the Bareja mountains as early as March 24th., and next 

 day there were large flocks, and on the 27th. they were most frequent 

 and common. They were also tolerably common on the mountains on 

 the 4th. and 5th. of September; from the 7th. to the 10th. they were 

 in innumerable quantities; more rare afterward; small flocks on the 

 23rd., and single birds on the 26th. They departed every morning 

 in the autumn between eight and ten, and were especially numerous 

 in cloudy and stormy weather. They choose the inner parts of the 

 forest, keeping however near the bank of the Amoor. They rested on 

 high elms, maples, and ash trees. They flew fifty or sixty feet high 

 in irregular order, and were frequently accompanied by Variegated 

 Woodpeckers. 



Nothing appears to be known about the nidification of this bird. 



My figure is from the skin of a young bird, taken near Pekin by 

 Mr. Swinhoe, who says (in lit.) that he never saw it anywhere else 

 than in this locality, where it goes about in winter in flocks. The 

 figure is therefore the young bird in winter plumage. 



