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obtained it at Pekin, and at Whampoa on the 18th April, and writes (Ibis, 1874, p. 443) as 

 follows : — " For some days towards the end of May these Thrushes were about our hills (at 

 Chefoo), apparently bound north. On the 22nd Mr. Carles shot three males, all sexually well 

 advanced." Specimens are also in Mr. Swinhoe's collection from Chefoo. It has been obtained 

 in Burmah, where Mr. Wardlaw Ramsay procured a specimen at Karen-nee at an altitude of 

 2500 feet on the 1st March ; and it also occurs in Java, whence I possess a specimen sent to me 

 by Dr. Otto Finsch, of Bremen. 



Respecting the habits of the present species I find nothing on record ; and it is as yet quite 

 unknown where it breeds. It is to be hoped that, as Asia is being so rapidly opened up by Russian 

 enterprise, we shall ere long be able to obtain reliable information respecting the breeding-habits 

 of the present species, as well as of several others about which information is greatly needed. 



The specimens figured are an adult male and an adult female, being those above described. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 

 a, 6 ad., b, 6 juv. Chefoo, China, May 1873 (R. Swinhoe). c, 2 ad. Java (Dr. 0. Finsch). 



E. Mus. B. Swinhoe. 



a, 6 ad. Whampoa, China, April 18th, 18G0 (R. Swinhoe). b, 6 ad. Amoy, April 19th, 1861. c, <5 juv. 

 Tingchow, October 1870. d, ? ad. Chefoo, Jnne 3rd, 1873 (R. S.). 



