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Holst procured a couple of specimens on Okinawashima in the Liu Кіп Archipelago, and 
Mr. Alan Owston met with the species on Ishigaki on February 22nd and March 1st (Bangs, Bull. 
Mus. С. 2. Harvard, xxxvi. p. 264). Kalinowski noticed it in Corea only on migration (Tacz. 
P. 7.5. 1888, p. 454), and Mr. Campbell procured a female bird near Sóul in May. He says that he 
only observed the species on one other occasion, in the forest-region south of Páik-tu San, 
on the 4th of October, and he thinks that these two dates probably represent the two periods 
during which it passes through Corea from its breeding-grounds to its winter-quarters, and vice versá 
(Ibis, 1892, p. 232). 
Przewalski met with the species in S.E. Mongolia, in Ordos, and Alashan, but only as a late 
migrant in spring. In S.E. Mongolia he obtained his first specimens on the 9th of May, 1871, 
and in the following year in Alashan on the 20th of May. In autumn he met with the species at 
the end of August in the valley of the Chuan-che on migration, and in Alashan throughout half of 
September. In 1880, on the autumn migration in the middle of September, he obtained specimens 
in the south of the Gobi desert, and it was met with in Alashan at the end of August. On the 29th 
of October, 1884, a specimen of this Thrush was picked up dead not far from Gass, having met with 
some accident or perhaps died of starvation. Przewalski says that both in spring and autumn 
this species is met with in small parties of from three to ten individuals, which frequent the 
treeless districts of the steppes or the saxoul-thickets, as, for instance, in Northern Alashan 
(еј. Pleske, 2. s. с.). 
In Northern China and Mongolia, Abbé David says it is very abundant during the periods of 
migration, nesting on the mountains and in the woods, and but seldom visiting the plains. 
Pére Hugh obtained two specimens in Shen-si (Sharpe, Ornis, 1901, p. 184), and Swinhoe records it 
from Chefoo and other places. Не says it is found from Мајасса to Pekin, and westwards to 
Szechuen (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 367). Abbé David also met with it in Moupin. Mr. Styan says that the 
species passes through the Lower Yangtze Valley on migration (Ibis, 1891, p. 318); it is scarce, but 
has been noted at Shanghai in March and May. Mr. Rickett has sent specimens to the Museum 
from Kuatun and Neuchang; and Mr. La Touche, in his paper on the birds of N.W. Fohkien, says 
that this Thrush passes Kuatun in April, May, and November (Ibis, 1899, p. 177). Не also records 
it from Foochow in November, February, and the beginning of May, and says that two specimens 
were obtained by his shooting-boy in April on the hills west of Swatow (Ibis, 1892, p. 413). 
Mr. La Touche also found it very common near Foochow in November 1884, and he shot 
specimens at Peline early in May, but it was not noticed in the plains during spring (Styan, Ibis, 1887, 
p.217) Swinhoe was the first to find the species in Formosa, where also Mr. La Touche obtained 
а specimen on the 19th of March in the northern part of the island (Ibis, 1898, p. 356). 
This Ouzel is said by Mr. Oates to be a more or less abundant visitor to the whole of Burma, 
and many specimens are in the Hume Collection from Tenasserim, collected by Mr. Davison. 
Colonel Rippon records it from Loi Maw, in the S. Shan States (7800 feet), in April (Ibis, 1901, 
p- 544). Itis also found in Assam and the neighbouring provinces, for I find that the specimens in 
the Godwin-Austen Collection from Cherra Poonji and the Eastern Маса Hills are true M. obscura, 
and not M. fec, as Mr. Oates has made them out to be (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 135). Mr. Hume 
says that the species was common in considerable-sized flocks in the eastern hills of Manipur, and 
his collection contains several examples from Shillong, obtained by Mr. J. Cockburn (Str. F. xi. 
p.130). Mr. Stuart Baker procured one bird out of a flock of five on a high tree, at 3000 feet, 
in North Cachar (Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. ix. p. 156, 1894). 
The Assamese Provinces constitute very nearly the western range of the species on its 
southward journey, but a straggler has been met with by Capt. Wimberley in the island of 
