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that they were about to nest іп these mountain-ranges. Even at Gilgit, however, the species is not 
known to breed, Dr. Scully stating that it is a common bird at an elevation of about 5000 feet, from 
the first week in October to the middle of May (Ibis, 1881, p. 439). Colonel Biddulph also says :— 
“Not uncommon in winter, but not a summer resident” (Ibis, 1881, p. 63). Mr. Hume writes 
(Stray Feath. i. p. 179, 1873):—“ In the better cultivated portions of the Upper Sindh, especially 
in and about groves and gardens, this species was very common. We used continually to see it 
busy on the ground in the thick brush-wood, turning over leaves in a most systematic and business- 
like manner. I particularly noticed it on one occasion working a large patch of dead leaves 
backwards and forwards as a pointer would a field of turnips. Occasionally it was also seen in 
localities entirely devoid of trees, feeding in the irregular patches of a kind of mustard that is so 
generally grown throughout Sindh. About Hyderabad I again noticed it.” 
The series of specimens in the Hume Collection shows that M. atrigularis is found over a 
considerable portion of the Indian Peninsula in winter, especially the Punjab and South-west 
Provinces, while it occurs also throughout the Himalayas from Gilgit to Assam. It is found as far 
south as Dacca, and Blyth noticed it near Barrackpur, where, however, it was rarely seen (Ibis, 
1866, p. 376). 
Mr. Hume (Str. F. xi. p. 128, 1888) says that he has received specimens of this species from 
Shillong and the Khasia Hills, Х.Е. Cachar, and the Dibrugarh district, and he saw some birds near 
Karimgunj іп Sylhet, as well as in the western hills of Manipur. In the winter of 1879 Mr. 7. В. 
Cripps says that the species was very common near Dibrugarh: it was a very dry season, but in 
other winters a few were always to be seen about. Mr. Stuart Baker (J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 
р. 27) says that it is an extremely common bird in Northern Cachar, and may often be seen іп 
considerable numbers feeding together in the rice jhums. Colonel Godwin-Austen has procured the 
species in the Lhota Naga Hills, the Khasias, and the Dafla Hills, as well as near Sadya. 
It does not seem to have been found in the Burmese Provinces, but Colonel Bingham and 
Mr. H. N. Thompson saw a specimen close to their camp at Loi-San-Pa, in the Southern Shan Hills, 
at 6000 feet (J. А. S. Beng. 1900, p. 120). 
The Black-throated Ouzel has occurred in different parts of Europe, and Professor Martorelli 
gives a long list of occurrences (Ornis, 1901, pp. 261-964) in Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, 
England, France, Italy, Austria, and Hungary. 
In the *Ibis' for 1901, Mr. Dresser describes and figures four eggs of the present species, 
obtained by Mr. H. L. Popham in the Yenesei Valley on the 18th of June, 1897. Не believes these 
to be the first properly authenticated eggs of the Black-throated Thrush, as he does not seem to 
consider the eggs from the Altai Mountains, received from Mr. Tancré's collectors, to have been 
correctly identified. Seebohm, however, believed in their proper identification and considered that 
his was the first description ever published. About the authenticity of Mr. Popham's specimens no 
doubt can exist, as he took five nests, each containing six eggs, at Inbatskaya on the Yenesei Rive: 
Mr. Dresser states that the eggs “ vary considerably, some almost exactly resembling the ordinary type 
of the. Blackbird, whereas others are more like those of the Mistle-Thrush, but have the ground- 
colour of a deeper blue. In size they vary from 1:08 to 1:15 by 0:77 to 0:84 in." 
Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, with slight indications of dusky centres to the 
feathers of the crown; wing-coverts like the back, with slightly paler ashy fringes to the greater 
series; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills sepia-brown, with hoary grey edges to the latter ; 
tail feathers sepia-brown, washed with grey on the margins; lores, an indistinct eyebrow, sides of 
face, and entire throat and fore-neck black; ear-coverts ashy-brown posteriorly like the head; 
remainder of under surface of body from the fore-neck downwards dingy white, the sides of the body, 
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