delta at the mouth of the dried-up Doo-din'-ka, my attention was attracted by а pair of Dusky 
Thrushes loudly proclaiming the vicinity of their nest. I shot one of them, and, after a diligent 
search of half an hour, found the nest in the fork of a willow bush level with the ground. It was 
exactly like the nest of a Fieldfare, lined with dried grass, and contained, alas! five young birds 
about a week old. 
“At noon we weighed anchor; but at midnight it was blowing such a stiff gale that we were 
afraid to round the * broad nose” of Tol.stan-os in the *Ibis'; so we cast anchor under the lee of 
the mud cliffs of the Yen-e-say', and I again went on shore. In some places the cliffs were very 
steep, and were naked mud or clay. In others the slope was more gradual, and was covered with 
mud and alder bushes. Among these bushes I found the Dusky Thrush again breeding, but was only 
able to find one nest with five nearly fledged young. The nest was placed, as before, in the fork of 
a willow, level with the ground. ‘This was the last time that I saw this species of Thrush.” 
Mr. H. L. Popham, during his second expedition to the Yenesei in 1895, obtained several nests 
of this Ouzel, which he found further north than the Redwing or the Fieldfare, occurring even 
beyond the limit of the forest-growth (Ibis, 1897, p. 92). On this third journey, he says that the 
Dusky Thrush was not seen at Yeneseisk, but was most numerous at Doodinka (lat. 691? N.), where 
Т | | the forest comes to ап end; and here he found five nests, one of them with seven eggs. The birds 
were very demonstrative when their nest was approached, but when once it was found they were very 
shy, and it became difficult to get anything but a long shot at them (Ibis, 1898, p. 493). As will be 
noticed above, Seebohm was only able to meet with nests containing young birds, but he was thus 
| enabled to discover the nesting-home of the species, and Mr. Popham was apparently the first to 
| bring home authentic eggs. Mr. Kibort, who collected for Mr. Seebohm at Krasnoyarsk, sent 
| full-grown young birds, but no eggs from that locality. 
On the river Ob, Dr. Finsch obtained a specimen at Bolschoi Ustram, on the 11th of September, 
1878 (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1879, p. 71). 
Returning to the eastward range of the species, we find that it is only a rare straggler to 
Kamtschatka, according to Dr. Stejneger, who met with a small flock near Petropaulski on the 15th 
of Мау, 1883. Не also procured a specimen on Bering Island between the sand-dunes opposite the 
village on the 3rd of June, 1883 (Rep. Orn. Expl. Comm. Isl. p. 307, 1885). In Korea, Kalinowski 
only noticed it on migration (cf. Tacz. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 463). 
In his work on the * Birds of the Japanese Empire,' Seebohm gives the following account of the 
species :—“ The Dusky Ouzel is a winter visitor to Japan, arriving from the north in great numbers. 
A few remain to winter in the northern island, but most of them pass onwards, and winter in 
the more southerly islands. They are very common in winter near Tokio and Yokohama, whence 
there are nine examples in the Pryer Collection. It also occurs near Nagasaki (Blakiston and Pryer, 
Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 167), whence examples have been sent by Mr. Ringer to the 
Norwich Museum, and whence those erroneously recorded as Т. naumanni in the report of the 
Siebold expedition were probably obtained (Temminck and Schlegel, * Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 61). 
One of these examples was figured in 1831 under the name of 7. eunomus (Temminck, Planches 
Coloriées, no. 514)." 
Mr. P. A. Holst procured specimens on Tsu-shima, the Twin Islands, in J anuary and April; it 
is a winter visitor to these islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 1892, p. 88). 
It appears to migrate through Manchuria and Mongolia to China and India. Przewalski 
writes (in Rowley's ‘ Ornithological Miscellany,’ ii. p. 196, 1877) :—“ We met with a flock of Turdus 
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