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Like the other species of Siberian Thrushes which have occurred in Europe, the Black-throated 

 Thrush is but a rare straggler within the limits of the Western Palsearctic Region, except 

 perhaps on its extreme eastern frontier ; for it is said to be at times numerous in the Ural. It 

 has once been met with as far west as Great Britain ; for a young male, now in the collection of 

 Mr. T. J. Monk, of Mountfield House, Lewes, was obtained near that town on the 23rd of 

 December 18C9. It is somewhat difficult to estimate the number of specimens which have been 

 obtained in Europe ; for it has been, like its allies which have straggled to us from Asia, not a 

 little confused with them ; and some of the records of its capture may possibly refer to one of the 

 allied species. 



It has not been met with in Norway or Sweden ; but Professor Malmgren informs me that 

 an old male was shot near Tavastehus, in Finland, lat. 61° N., in December 1871, and is now in 

 the Helsingfors Museum. It is of not unfrequent occurrence in Russia, though only, it would 

 seem, in the eastern portion. Mr. Sabanaeff says that he met with it in large numbers in the 

 Pavdinskaya Dacha ; and it is said to be found further south in the Kaslinsky Ural. Eversmann 

 says that it straggles to the Orenburg Government from the southern Altai ; and Hoffmann met 

 with it between 62° and 65° N. lat. in the Ural. 



It has occurred on several occasions in Germany ; but by some authors the records of its 

 occurrence are given in very general terms, and are therefore open to doubt. Borggreve, on the 

 authority of Pastor Boeck, states that it has occurred near Danzig. Dr. Zander records two 

 instances of its occurrence in Mecklenburg, where it is said to have occurred not unfrequently. 

 Naumann says that it occurs, as a rare straggler, in Hungary, Austria, and Bohemia. Natterer 

 obtained it several times amongst the Thrushes offered for sale in the Vienna market; and it is 

 said to have been obtained in Silesia. Many years previously fourteen were seen in Thuringia, 

 near Coburg, late in October, and two were caught and described by Bechstein. A specimen in 

 the possession of Naumann himself was obtained near Brunswick in the month of September; 

 and his brother saw an old bird near there in the summer of 1820. According to Von Negelin 

 one was caught in a snare near Oldenburg in 1817, and another is stated to have been seen at 

 Blankenburg. Dr. Rudolf Blasius states (J. f. O. 1863, p. 50) that one in the Gottingen Museum 

 was caught in a snare near that town; Pastor Jackel records (J. f. O. 1854, p. 491) the occur- 

 rence of one in June 1853 near Osterhofen, in Lower Bavaria; it is stated by Von Kettner to 

 occur rarely in the Black Forest ; and Dr. Zander records it from Wiirtemberg, where he believes 

 that it may breed. On one occasion it has been met with in Denmark, where Mr. Collin says 

 (Skand. Fugle, p. 224), a female was shot in 1822, in Herlufmagle, by Pastor Appeldorn, and is 

 now in the Royal Museum, and that one was seen by Mr. Frees Hornemann on the 25th February 

 and 'Jth March 1860, at Hjorring, so close that he could easily identify it: but it was not shot; 

 so there may be some doubt as to the bird being really a Black-throated Thrush. It has 

 occurred in Belgium and France. Dubois, sen., states that one was obtained in the Namur 

 market in October 1844; De Lamotte (Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 318) records the occurrence of one 

 near Abbeville in November 1842; and Messrs. Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye cite two 

 instances of its occurrence near Marseilles — one at St. Marcel in October 1834, and the other 

 amongst other "gibier" in the market somewhat later. One is recorded by Savi as having been 

 obtained near Turin in January 1826, and is now in the museum of that town ; according to 

 Sahadori another example was obtained near Pavia ; and Monte refers to a Thrush obtained near 



