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grey, the lores and the upper throat and ear-coverts darker; breast and flanks dull orange-buff; rest 

 of the underparts white ; the under tail-coverts blotched with greyish brown ; upper mandible blackish 

 horn ; lower mandible yellow, tipped with horn ; legs fleshy brown ; iris dark brown. Total length 

 about 75 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-92, tail 37, tarsus 1-25. 



Adult Female (Yennesei, 8th June). Differs from the male in having the upper parts duller; the slaty tinge 

 on the head and neck is wanting, these portions being brownish ; eye-streak yellowish white ; chin and 

 throat dull white, this colour extending onto the sides of the neck ; a broad streak of brown passes 

 down each side of the throat from the gape ; rest of the underparts as in the male. 



Young (Yennesei, 6th August). Upper parts olivaceous, spotted with ochreous, the feathers dark-tipped; 

 underparts white, the throat and breast profusely spotted with dark brown ; flauks dull orange ; the 

 eye-streak rather less distinct than in the adult, and of a yellowish- white tinge. 



I.\ Asia this Thrush has a wide range : and its true habitat is there ; for it is only known within 

 the limits of the western Palaearctic Region as a rare and occasional straggler. I do not find it 

 recorded from Scandinavia, and have no data from Mr. Sabanaeff respecting its occurrence in 

 Russia. Nor is it included by Mr. Taczanowski in his notes on the ornithology of Poland; but. 

 u has certainly occurred several times in Germany: there is a specimen in the Berlin Museum 

 labelled " Mark ;" Borggreve states that Boeck records its occurrence once in Prussia, and 

 Tobias twice in Oberlausitz; and Naumann states (Vog. Deutschl. xiii. p. 289) that he has 

 examined half a dozen examples from North-east Germany. One described by him he obtained 

 in the flesh from Kleinzerbst on the 26th September 1838 ; and several, he adds, have been 

 obtained near Herzberg, in Saxony, in the Harz, and elsewhere, all in the early autumn, when 

 the Sony- Thrushes are on passage. 



According to Professor Schlegel it has once occurred in Holland; and Baron Fallon says 

 that it has been met with once or twice in Belgium ; and one, in the collection of Baron De Selys 

 Longchamps, was picked up in the Namur market amongst some common Thrushes by M. de 

 Lafontaine. In France it is also only a rare straggler; but, according to Jaubert, it occurs not 

 unfrequently in the vicinity of Marseilles in November, and is to be met with exposed for sale in 

 the market almost every year. It does not appear to have occurred in Portugal or Spain ; but 

 Salvadori says that two have been killed in Italy — one in November 1827, and the other in 

 November 1828, both near Turin. Dr. Anton Fritsch, in his Notes on the Ornithology of 

 Bohemia (J. f. O. 1871, p. 193), says that it was twice obtained by Mr. Koch, on both occasions 

 caught in snares, in the Emeth Revier, Hardenberg, Kreis Elbogen, one of these specimens 

 being in the collection of Mr. Koch himself, and the other in that of Prince Radziwill, at Berlin ; 

 and there is an example in the Vienna Museum said to have been obtained in Austria. 



In Asia the present species is tolerably widely distributed. It was only once met with in 

 Turkestan, near the tower of Vernoje, by Dr. Severtzoff. Dr. Jerdon does not include it in his 

 'Birds of India,' but says (Ibis, 1872, p. 136) that Colonel Godwin-Austen procured one at 

 Cherra-Poonjee in November. In Siberia, as below stated, it was found by Mr. Seebohm on 

 tin 1 Yennesei ; and he was fortunate enough to obtain both the eggs and young birds. Von 

 Middendorff says that he obtained a pair near Udskoj-Ostrog which agree closely with Naumann's 

 plate 357 ; and Dr. Radde obtained a series of twenty-eight examples in South-east Siberia. 



