MERULA OBSCURA (Gn). 
EYEBROWED OUZEL. 
Dark Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn, ii. pt. 1, p. 31 (1783). 
Turdus obscurus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 816 (1788); Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 307; Hume & Davis. 
Str. F. vi. p. 251 (1878); David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 153 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 130 
(1888); Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 4; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 59 (1884); Stejn. 
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 307 (1885) ; Tacz. Mém. Acad. Imp. Pétersb. (7) xxxix. p. 306 
(1891). 
Turdus ochrogaster, Sparrm. Mus. Carlss. iv. pl. 85 (1789). 
Turdus pallens, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 457 (1811); Temm. € Schl. Faun. Jap. Aves, 
p. 63, pl. xxvii. (1847). 
Turdus seyffertitzii, Brehm, Lehrb. eur. Уба. ii. p. 972 (1824). 
Turdus rufulus, Drap. Dict. Class. d'Hist. Nat. x. p. 443 (1896). 
Turdus werneri, Géné, Mem. Ac. Torino, xxxvii. p. 296, pl. 2 (1834). 
Turdus pallidus (nec Gm.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 97 (1885); Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. 
p. 402 (1867) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. pt. 2, p. 196 (1876). 
Turdus modestus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103. 
Planesticus obscurus, Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 5 (1856). . 
Turdus davidianus, Milne-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. i., Bull. p. 26 (1865). 
Turdus chrysolaus (nec Temm.), Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 101 (1870); 
Dybowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. 476. 
Geocichla obscura, Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 136. ; 
Turdulus pallens, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, p. 178 (1874). 
Merula obscura, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 273 (1881); Pleske, Wissench. Result. 
Przew. Reis, ii, p. 16 (1889); Oates, Faun, Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 134 (1890). 
M. rostro fusco, mandibulá flavá: pileo dorso feré concolore, minimè nigro: axillaribus grisescentibus, haud 
hypochondriis aurantiacis concoloribus : supercilio distincto albo insignis. 
Tuis Ouzel is found from the Valley of the Yenesei eastwards to Kamtchatka. In winter it 
migrates to India, China, and the Malay Archipelago, and during that season it has occurred on 
several occasions in Europe. . 
In the Valley of the Yenesei this species was first met with by Mr. Seebohm during his | 
celebrated expedition to Siberia in 1878. He writes :—'* During the first week of June the forests 
were practically impassable. The deep snow was in process of melting, and too soft to. bear 
the weight even when distributed over a pair of snow-shoes each measuring 4 feet 6 inches long and 
10 inches wide. Оп some of the steeper slopes exposed to the south, small oases of bare ground 
were to be found. One of these, close behind my quarters, thinly covered over with bushes, was a 
very prolific hunting-ground for me during the spring migration. On this piece of ground, on the 
ith of June, I had the pleasure of shooting my first brace of Dark Thrushes (the Turdus pallens of 
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