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TURDUS ATRIGULARIS. 



(BLACK-THROATED THRUSH.) 



Turdus atrogularis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 169 (1820). 



Turdus bechsteinii, J. F. Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. ii. p. 310 (1822). 



Cichloides, Kaup (Turdus bechsteinii, Naum.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 153 (1829). 



Sylvia atrogularis (Temm.), Savi, Orn. Tosc. iii. p. 203 (1831). 



Merula atrogularis (Temm.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 17 (1838). 



Turdus atrigularis (Temm.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 51 (1840). 



Merula leucogaster, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 149 (1847). 



Planesticus atrogularis (Temm.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 5 (1854). 



Cichloides atrigularis (Temm.), Tytler, Ibis, 1869, p. 124. 



Merle a gorge noire, French ; Tordo dal fetto new, Italian ; schwarzkehlige Drossel, German ; 

 Sortstrubet Drossel, Danish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Insectiwres, pi. 16 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 17; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 24. 

 figs. 19, 20, 21; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 69. fig. 1, fig. 21, taf. 361. figs. 1, 2; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 75 ; id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pi. 36. 



d ad. corpore supra griseo-fusco vix olivaceo tincto, indistiiicte striato : pileo saturatiore : alis et eauda 

 saturate fuscis anguste pallidiore marginatis : mento, gula et gutture nigris, plumis in gutture anguste 

 pallide fusco marginatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo, hypochondriis pallide griseo-fusco striatis et 

 lavatis : subcaudalibus rufescente fusco striatis : subalaribus et axillaribus sordide aurantiaco lavatis : 

 rostro flavo ad basin, et versus apicem nigro : pedibus flavo-fuscis : iride fusca. 



2 ad. mari similis, sed corpore supra magis olivaceo, nee gula et gutture nigris, sed albis, conspicue nigro 

 striatis et notatis, subalaribus magis aurantiaco lavatis. 



Adult Male (Chodjent, 13th December). Upper parts greyish brown with an olivaceous tinge, the feathers 

 with very faintly darker centres ; crown darker, the centres of the feathers much darker ; wings and 

 tail dull brown with narrow lighter margins ; entire chin and throat down to the breast deep black, 

 some of the feathers with very narrow light margins, rest of the underparts white, the flanks washed 

 and striped with greyish brown ; under tail-coverts varied with streaks of reddish brown ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries tinged with dull reddish orange; bill yellow, blackish at the tip; legs light 

 yellowish brown; iris dark brown. Total length about 9'5 inches, culmen O7o, wing 5 - 45, tail 4"3, 

 tarsus 2*3. 



Adult Female (Simla). Upper parts as in the adult male, but rather more olivaceous in tinge; throat down 

 to the breast white, closely striped and marked with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries brighter 

 orange-red in tinge, and the under surface of the wing slightly washed with orange ; rest of the under- 

 parts as in the male. 



Young Male (Chimkent). Resembles the female, but has the throat more strongly marked with black. 



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