MERULA EUNOMUS, Temm. 
SIBERIAN DUSKY OUZEL. 
Turdus fuscatus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 451, tab. xii. (1811, nec Vieill. 1807); David 
& Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 155 (1877); Tacz. Faune Orn. Sibir. Orient. i. p. 289 (1891). 
Turdus eunomus, Temm. Pl. Col. ii. pl. 514 (1831); Stejneger, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 315 
(1892); id. Res. Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. pp. 307, 325 (1885). 
Turdus naumanni (nec Temm.), Gould, B. Eur. ii. pl. Ixxix. (1837). 
Cichloselys f'uscatus, Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 5 (1856). 
Turdus dubius, Bechst.; Jaub. & Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 213 (1859, pt.); Dresser, D. 
Eur. ii. p. 63, pl. vii. (1877); Finsch, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1879, p. 71. 
Planesticus fuscatus, Jerd. D. Ind. i. p. 530 (1862). 
Turdus ruficollis (nec Pall.), Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 65 (teste Finsch, 1879). 
Merula fuscata, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 262 (1881). 
M. rostro et pedibus nigricanti-brunneis: alis precipue rufis: caudá saturaté brunneá: gutture et supercilio 
pallidé cervinis: pectore et corporis lateribus nigro cordatim maculatis. 
Тнів species is chiefly recognizable by its rufous wings, and especially by the rufous axillaries and 
under wing-coverts. Тһе tail is dark brown, thus distinguishing it from М. naumanni, with which 
it has sometimes been confounded, while the black spots on the chest and sides of the body are also 
characteristic. 
Dr. Taczanowski has given the following history of the species in Siberia (Faun. Orn. Sibir. 
Orient. 1. p. 293) :—* Middendorff has found this Ouzel during the most severe winters on the Yenesei 
in 59° N. lat.: on the 10th of February he has seen many bands of these birds, consisting of 
from 30 to 40 individuals, to the south of Yeneseisk ; and on the 21st of February he succeeded in 
killing several examples near the station of Savina, situated about 130 kilometres from Yeneseisk ; 
the birds were driven by the cold, in troops of six or seven individuals, to seek shelter in the houses 
and under the roofs of the station-building." 
None of the Russian travellers have found this Thrush at the same season of the year in the 
eastern districts of Siberia. Dybowski and Godlewski have observed the species on Lake Baikal, in 
Dauria, in the Ussuri country, and on the coasts of the Sea of Japan, and the last-named traveller 
writes :—“ During the spring migration it is very common everywhere, arriving in the first half of 
May and keeping in troops often mixed with other Thrushes. Being less timorous than its congeners, 
it loves the open prairies, or those more or less covered with bushes, the edges of the forests, 
especially those situated on the southern slopes of the mountains. On fine days the birds perch in 
large numbers on the trees and bushes and sing, making a great hubbub consisting of a mixture of 
the different notes of all the species in the assemblage. We have not found this Ouzel breeding in 
any locality visited by us, and the eggs which were given to us were sent from Oussolje on the 
Angora. In autumn the species is very rare and appears in the early part of October, though we 
have killed a specimen on the 23rd of this month." Von Schrenk gives the following note:— 
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