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MERULA ATRIGULARIS (Temm.). 
BLACK-THROATED OUZEL. 
Turdus atrogularis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 169 (1820); Tacz. Faun. Orn. Sibir. Orient. р. 305 
(1891). 
Turdus bechsteini, Naum. Vóg. Deutschl. ii. p. 310 (1829). 
Cichloides bechsteini, Kaup, Natürl. Syst. p. 153 (1839). 
Sylvia atrogularis, Savi, Orn. Tosc. iii. p. 203 (1831). 
Merula atrogularis, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. p. 17 (1838); Seebohm, Cat. В. Brit. 
Mus. v. p. 269 (1881); id. Hist. Brit. B. i. p. 249 (1883) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. 
p. 131 (1890). 
Turdus varicollis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pl. 148, nos. 198, 199, pl. 149, 
nos. 198, 199, 
Merula leucogaster, Blyth, J. А. S. Beng. xvi. р. 149 (1847). ^ 
Planesticus atrogularis, Вр. Cat. Coll. Parzudaki, p. 5 (1854); Hume & Henders. Lahore to 
Yark. p. 192 (1873). 
Cichloides atrigularis, Tytler, Ibis, 1869, p. 124; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 179 (1873). 
Turdus mystacinus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 118, 119 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 
p. 332. 
M. rostro nigro, mandibulá flavá: gutture et preepectore nigris: corpore reliquo subtüs albo, hypochondriis 
cinerascentibus : caudá saturate brunneá. 
IHE Black-throated Ouzel breeds in Siberia and in the mountains of Central Asia; it winters 
in Northern India and the Himalayas, east to Assam and westwards to Baluchistan and Persia, 
having lately been found also at Yeshbum, in South Arabia. During its winter wanderings 
it has, on several occasions, been procured in Europe, and has twice been noticed in the 
British Islands. 
Seebohm, in his * History of British Birds, gives the following notes:—“ Its occurrence was 
first recorded by Mr. T. J. Monk, into whose possession the specimen came, in the ‘Zoologist’ for 
February 1869, p. 1560, thus: *On Wednesday, 23rd of December, a fine example of the Black- 
throated Thrush was shot near Lewes. The bird, which proved on dissection to be a male, was in 
excellent condition, and, having been carefully handled, was in fine order for preservation, and in 
this respect has received ample justice from the hands of Mr. Swaysland of Brighton, where it may 
be seen” Mr. G. D. Rowley also brought the circumstances before the Zoological Society of 
London, where the bird was exhibited." 
Mr. Gould further described the specimen in the ‘Ibis,’ and afterwards figured it in his * Birds of 
Great Britain. | 
А second specimen of the Black-throated Ouzel was shot оп the banks of the Тау, near Perth, іп 
February 1879, and was recorded by the late Colonel Drummond-Hay in the ‘Ibis’ for 1889 
(р. 579). Strange to say, this second occurrence has been overlooked by most recent writers on 
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