190 BLACK-THROATED THRUSH. 



frequent the densest and most remote solitudes of the 

 forest at this time, and "while perched on the tops of 

 the lofty larches the males gave utterance to sweet 

 songs, which recalled the melody of our T. musicus to 

 my memory." 



The male of the Black-throated Thrush has the face, 

 cheeks, front of the neck, and upper part of the chest 

 of a deep black, which is shaded with ash-colour upon 

 the end of the feathers of the chest; lower part of the 

 chest and middle of abdomen of a whitish colour, 

 shaded on the side with russet, where this colour is 

 relieved by little angular spots of a dark brown. Infe- 

 rior tail coverts russet, and all tipped with white. Upon 

 the upper parts a shade of olive ash-colour predominates, 

 which is darker on the head. Wing coverts are 

 delicately bordered with yellowish ash-colour; beak 

 blackish brown, but the inferior mandible is yellow at 

 its base. Iris and feet brown. Length ten inches and 

 a half. 



The female has the upper parts of an olive grey, 

 with deeper tints on the wings; the throat has those 

 parts which are black in the male of a yellowish red, 

 longitudinally streaked with black; a horse-shoe-shaped 

 spot on the chest black, marked out with grey; under 

 tail coverts whitish, shaded with yellowish hairs. 



Young birds have the throat and front of the neck 

 whitish, but surrounded laterally by a succession of 

 longitudinal spots, which unite on the chest in black 

 or brown marks or spots according to age; all the 

 other parts are whitish, except the sides, which are 

 ash-coloured, and have angular brown spots; all the 

 upper parts of the body as well as the cheeks are 

 olive ash-coloured. It is then T. dubius. — Temminck, 

 Man., 1820—35. 



