TURDINA. 9 
THE BLACK-THROATED THRUSH. 
TURDUS ATRIGULARIS, Temminck. 
The first recorded occurrence of this eastern species in Britain 
was a young male, obtained in the flesh by Mr. T. J. Monk of 
Lewes, shot near that town on December 23rd, 1868. Subse- 
quently, in ‘The Ibis’ for October 1889, the late Lt.-Col. H. M. 
Drummond-Hay stated that he had identified an example of this 
species, shot by Mr. Robert Gloag after a prolonged snowstorm, 
on the banks of the Tay, in February 1879, when it was in company 
with another bird of the same kind; it has been presented to'the 
Museum at Perth. 
It is not improbable that other stragglers to this country may 
have been overlooked, for the species has several times occurred at 
no great distance from our shores. In December 1886 an example 
was obtained in Norway; one has been taken in Denmark, several 
in Northern Germany, Belgium, and France, and at least three. in 
Tyrol and Northern Italy. In Central and Eastern Europe its 
occurrences, as might naturally be expected, become more frequent 
‘in proportion as its Siberian home is approached ; nevertheless it 
has only once been obtained in the Caucasian district, near Len- 
koran. Beyond the Ural Mountains the species becomes more 
abundant, breeding in Eastern Turkestan up to an elevation of 
