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near Khustágh on the 2nd of November, and it was again common near Yangi-hissár on the 1st of 
December. Colonel Biddulph records it from Yarkand on the 26th of November, and from 
Marálbáshi in January. Не first noticed it at Sanju іп November, and it was common about 
Káshgar all through the winter. He also obtained a specimen at Marálbáshi, but he never saw the 
species in Wakkán or on the Pámir, though he again found it when, in May, the expedition returned 
to the plains of Yarkand (Sharpe, Sc. Res. 2nd Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 93). 
Dr. Scully, in his account of the birds of Eastern Turkestan (Stray Feath. iv. p. 140, 1876), 
says that “this species was first met with at Sulaghz Langar in September, and was a common 
bird in the plains, in the neighbourhood of Kashgar, Yarkand, &c., during the winter. It was 
usually seen about trees lining watercourses or growing near tanks. The bird disappeared 
entirely in spring, migrating in a north-easterly direction, towards the hills and the Lob district, 
where it was reported to breed." Dr. Henderson writes (‘Lahore to Yarkand, p. 192) :—“ This 
species, not observed on the upward journey, was very plentiful on the return march in October 
from Chägra (alt. 15,000 feet) above the Pángong Lake, throughout Ladák and Kashmir, and by 
November it was widely spread over the plains of the Panjáb." 
During the Afghan Boundary Delimitation Commission, Dr. Aitchison found this Ouzel very 
numerous in Badghis in winter, especially in the Pistachio forests, where it was very shy and difficult 
to get near (Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 72, 1889). 
Dr. W. T. Blanford writes in his ‘Zoology of Eastern Persia’ (ii. p. 158, 1876):—“ I found 
the Black-throated Thrush common in Baluchistan in winter. It was especially so in the miserable 
apologies for gardens at Gwädar, one of the most desolate of inhabited spots on Ше earth’s surface, 
where I can only explain the occurrence of this bird by the circumstance of its being unable to 
migrate further on account of the sea; and as confirming this view, I may mention that 1 saw 
several of these birds on some very cold days in January, when, as we afterwards learnt, all the 
higher plains in Persia were covered with snow. Тһе birds were very tame, searching for food 
around the houses on the open sand-dunes. Elsewhere I only saw this bird in fairly wooded 
localities, such as the plains of Píshín and Mand. I, however, did not see it in the much more 
fertile and better-wooded plains of Soampür and Narmashír, and I think it probable that before 
I reached those places, in the commencement of April, these birds had migrated northwards.” Nor 
did either Major St. John or Dr. Blanford ever meet with 7. atrigularis on the Persian plateau, 
though the former says that he has frequently seen it in winter in gardens about Ispahan (Ibis, 1883, 
2.168]; 
Mr. Hume obtained two specimens at Gwadar on the Mekran coast on the 19th of February, 
1872, and noticed that they were in nearly full breeding-plumage (Str. Е. i. p. 179). Specimens have 
also been obtained near Bushire from January to March by Mr. A. J. V. Palmer (Sharpe, Ibis, 
1886, p. 495), and Mr. Bury has recently met with the species at Yeshbum in South Arabia 
(Lorenz & Hellmayr, J. f. О. 1901, p. 240). 
In the Seebohm Collection is a specimen from Samarcand, and Dr. Radde met with it in Trans- 
caspia at Geomab on the 14th of March, and at Askabad on the 11th of February (cf. Dresser, 1bis, 
1889, p. 55). 
Colonel Swinhoe (Ibis, 1882, p. 105) says that this Ouzel has been procured by Dr. Duke from 
November to February near Quetta, and at Kelat in Northern Baluchistan in December. Sir. 0. 
St. John found it very common in winter at Kandahar in some years, though scarcely seen in others 
(Ibis, 1889, p. 163). 
Тһе Black-throated Ouzel is found throughout the Himalayas in winter, and some of the 
specimens procured iu spring are in such beautiful breeding-dress that it could easily be believed 
