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Since the publication of the first edition the following information 

 about this bird has been published. Mr. Swinhoe, on the Birds of 

 China, "P. Z. S.," 1863, p. 279, remarks: — "A male in complete 

 plumage, shot at Amoy, 19th. April, 1861, was of a smoky black, 

 with a pure white eye brow, white on the axillaries, a white bar 

 across the under wings, and drops of white on the medial belly line 

 and crissum. Bill black; inside of mouth orange ochre; edge of 

 rictus pale dusky yellow; legs and claws ochre, with saffron base to 

 tarsi and soles of toes." 



"This Thrush is said to be common in Siberia. In Japan it 

 probably breeds, as Captain Blakiston brought young birds from 

 Hakodadi. In the South of China it is rare, occurring occasionally 

 during its migrations. It is said to have been procured as far south 

 as Java, but is not noticed by Von Schrenck from Amur-land. The 

 females are brown and Thrush-like, and the plumage closely assimi- 

 lates the species to Oreocincla, which group it also approaches in 

 the somewhat spinous rigidity of the feathers of its rump, and in 

 the white bar across its under wing." 



Captain Blakiston ("Ibis," 1863, p. 96,) thus alludes to the young 

 birds mentioned above: — "These were shot by myself from among a 

 number in a pine wood near Hakodadi in Aiigust. The most striking 

 features which distinguish the young of this species from that of T. 

 cardis, (with which Captain B. had at first placed them,) are the 

 light coloured streaks in the middle of the feathers of the head, 

 back, and wing coverts. The young are subject to as great variation 

 in the general colour of the plumage as those of T. cardis. My 

 two specimens, which are both young males, differ if anything rather 

 more than the two young given in pi. 29 of the 'Fauna Japonica.' " 



I copy the following from Dr. Radde's "E-eisen im Suden von 

 Ost Siberien," vol. ii., p. 237: — "I met with this rare species twice 

 on its passage. An old male in the spring of 1856, on the 8th. of 

 May, on the Tarei-Nor, and a young female on May 9th. of same 

 year. The latter was killed. According to JSTaumann junior's des- 

 cription, which he gives in the Appendix to his father's work, page 

 348, et seq., this bird ranks among immature females, moulting from 

 the nestling to the youthful plumage. According to this, the back 

 and rump have a slight sprinkling of leaden grey, which covers the 

 somewhat unicolorous olive brownish grey of the upper parts of the 

 side of the body. The wings also have the ground-colour almost 

 brown, and the yellow spots at the tips of the upper wing coverts 

 are visible, and are also seen on the separate small feathers of the 

 wrist. Our bird differs somewhat from the figure in ' Fauna Japonica,' 



