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Although Seebohm did not find M. naumanni nesting in the Yenesei Valley, Mr. H. L. Popham 
was more fortunate, since, on his expedition of 1900 with Mr. Gerald R. Peek, the latter shot 
a female bird as she flew off a nest with six eggs (Ibis, 1901, p. 451). Mr. Popham has lent 
me this specimen for examination, and I find that it is an undoubted Jf. naumanni, but with 
several triangular spots of black on the sides of the breast. Mr. Dresser had also identified 
the skin as belonging to the present species. { 
In Corea, Kalinowski observed this Ouzel only on migration (‘Taczanowski, 1. с.); and Mr. С, W. 
Campbell writes: —“ A winter visitor; very numerous. Іп the vicinity of the Yalu River, in 
lat. 40° 30' N., I noticed that the passage southwards commenced during the first week of October” 
(Ibis, 1892, p. 232).  Seebohm gives the following account of the species in his “Birds of 
the Japanese Empire’ (p. 47):—* The Red-tailed Ouzel is a rare winter visitor to Japan, 
Dr. Henderson procured it at Hakodadi in October 1857 (Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1858, 
р. 194), and in (һе Pryer Collection there is one example obtained by Captain Blakiston at 
Hakodadi in March, and two examples from Yokohama. It has also occurred on the Loo-Choo 
Islands (Stejneger, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 646)” Dr. Stejneger has since recorded the 
species from Tokyo (op. cif. xvi. p. 631). Holst met with Naumann's Ouzel on the 20th of January 
in the Tsu-shima or Twin Islands, where the bird is a winter visitor only (Seebohm, Ibis, 1892, 
p. 88). 
To return to the mainland of Eastern Asia, we find that Przewalski states that M. naumanni, 
which winters in considerable numbers in Northern China, was only seen on migration near the 
town of Dolon-nor aud in the valley of the Chuanche. Once also he saw the bird in the Kuku-nor 
district in October (cf. Pleske, Wiss. Result. Przew. Reis. ii. p. 6). In the British Museum are 
some specimens obtained by Mr. H. M. James at Chang-tsin-ling, in Southern Manchuria. 
In China, Abbé David says that it was the species of Thrush which he most commonly met with, 
particularly in the north and west. Throughout this region, in the plains as well as on the 
mountains, it occurred in considerable flocks, At Pekin it was observed in the gardens from the 
autumn to the end of the spring among the pagodas and in the graveyards, feeding on berries as 
well as on worms and insects. Przewalski met with it in the valley of the Hoangho, in Kokonoor, 
and in the Ussuri country, but he has found, curiously enough, that it does not breed in Mongolia, 
nor even in the wooded mountains of Alashan. 
Swinhoe gives the Chinese range of this species as from Shanghai to Pekin, and westwards to 
Szechuen (Р. Z. S. 1871, р. 366). Specimens collected by him, and now in the British Museum, are 
from Shanghai, Ningpo, Sli-he, and Hoopih. At Shanghai the species has also been obtained by 
Capt. Ince, Mr. C. B. Rickett, and Mr. Robert Bergman (cf. Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vi. 
p. 157,1870). The latter observer states that it was generally found in pairs in the villages. Swinhoe 
also records a straggler shot at Tamsuy, in Formosa, on the 19th of February ; but the specimen is not 
in the Seebohm Collection, with the rest of Swinhoe's Chinese series. 
In the ‘Ibis’ for 1884 (p. 262) Seebohm mentions some specimens of M. naumanni procured in 
winter by Mr. F. W. Styan in the Kiukiang district, about 450 miles up the Yangtse Kiang. On 
the Lower Yangtze Mr. Styan records the species as common in winter, arriving early іп November 
and remaining till the middle of April. It was seldom found at any elevation over a few hundred 
feet, and was to a large extent gregarious, frequenting the larger copses and the outskirts of woods 
(Ibis, 1891, pp. 319, 532). In the Foochow district Mr. La Touche has found Naumann's Ouzel 
plentiful in spring, but rare in winter. Не states that he has never noticed the bird at the latter 
season, but he believes that it may winter in the hills. It seems to avoid the Swatow plain 
altogether (Ibis, 1892, pp. 407, 412). 
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