56 SIBERIAN THRUSH. 



No. 31, which is also a young bird, but agrees in every other respect 

 very well with that figure. 



On the newly shot bird the feet were of a waxen yellow colour: 

 the claws paler; the upper mandible a deep black, light horn brown 

 at the tip. The lower mandible below the gape waxen yellow; the 

 edges on the side and tip horn-colour. This bird lived in company 

 with Tardus pallens in the gardens of Kalassatajessk." 



In the "Ibis" for 1870, p. 196, Messrs. Elwes and Buckley record 

 a specimen shot by A. Cullen near Kustendji. 



Information about the nidification and habits of this bird is still a 

 desideratum. 



The adult male has the whole plumage of a dark bluish black; the 

 throat and front of the neck a deep black; very large eyebrows of 

 a pure white; the wing and tail feathers of a dull black; lower part 

 of abdomen white, with black spots on each side, forming an oblique 

 band upon the internal surface of these parts; the three lateral 

 feathers of the tail and the iinder coverts terminated by a white spot; 

 beak black; feet brown. Length nine inches. 



The adult female has the throat whitish, marked with little brown 

 dots, and lateral part framed by a longitudinal black band; the cheeks 

 speckled with whitish brown; the large band of the eyebrow a yellowish 

 white. The rest like the male. 



The young of the year differ considerably in the colours of their 

 plumage. All the upper parts of an olive brown; the wings and 

 tail a deej) brown, the primaries having on their inner web a tint of 

 russet white; the eyebrows a yellowish white, marked with brown 

 streaks: throat and cheeks of a reddish white, speckled with olive, 

 but each feather having in the centre a great whitish or slightly 

 reddish spot, in the shape of a spear head; flanks, thighs, sides of 

 belly, and abdomen of an olive tint, so that only the central line of 

 the belly is pure white; great white lanceolated spots terminate the 

 the feathers underneath the tail; beak and feet brown. 



My figure is an adult male killed in China, the skin of which was 

 kindly sent to me by Mr. Gould. 



This bird has been beautifully figured by Mr. Gould in his mag- 

 nificent work the " Birds of Great Britain," in consequence of a 

 single specimen having been shot by Mr. Drewitz at St. Catherine's 

 Hill, near Guilford, in February, 1855. The specimen, which was a 

 female, is now in the possession of my friend Mr. Bond. It is figured 

 in Mr. Gould's plate. This single capture does not, however, in 

 my opinion, justify me in leaving this bird out of my work, more 

 particularly as Mr. Gould's work is only accessible to a few. 



