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fuscatus in the Schara-chada Mountains of SE. Mongolia during migration. At Lake Hanka they 
migrated in April and the beginning of May, usually in company with T. naumanni, like the latter 
not staying to breed, but going north for that purpose." On the 27th of September, 1884, he 
obtained a young specimen, apparently migrating, on the Naidshin-gol, in Southern Zaidam (Pleske, 
Wissensch. Result. Przew. Reis. i. p. 7, 1889). 
Swinhoe gives the range of this species in China as from Pekin to Amoy, as well as Formosa, 
extending westwards to Szechuen (Р. 7. 5. 1871, p. 266). Abbe David records it as very common 
throughout China during half of the year, travelling in flocks like M. naumanni, and often mixed 
with the latter species (David & Oust. Ois. Chine, р. 155). Near Amoy, Swinhoe speaks of it as 
the commonest ‘Thrush in winter (Ibis, 1860, p. 56). In the Lower Yangtse Valley Mr. Е. W. 
Styan records the Dusky Thrush as a winter visitant, arriving in the first week in November and 
remaining till the middle of April, and he has met with it in Kiukiang as late as the 26th of 
the latter month. He states that it sometimes associates in flocks with M. naumanni, and prefers 
the fir-woods on the lower slopes and at the bases of the hills to the open country (Ibis, 1891, 
рр. 919, 333). Mr. J. D. La Touche says that it was extremely abundant at the end of February and 
throughout March at Foochow (Ibis, 1887, p. 217), but was rare as a winter visitant. Опе was shot 
in the Peling country in January, but he did not observe it at Swatow (Ibis, 1892, pp. 407, 415). 
The species was obtained by Mr. Berezowski in Gan-su (Berez. & Bianchi, Exped. Gan-su, 
p. 102, 1891), and Capt. Wingate procured a specimen near Pu-an-ting, in West Kweichu, in 
January 1899 (Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 587). In Burma it has been met with by Colonel 
Wardlaw-Ramsay at Toungngoo, but it is rare in the Assamese Provinces. Mr. Stuart Baker says 
that he has only twice seen the species in Northern Cachar, two female birds having been obtained 
at a height of 3000 feet (7. Bomb. Soc. N. Н. ix. p. 130). Specimens procured at Shillong and 
Dibrugarh by Mr. J. Cockburn are in the Hume Collection (Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 150, 1885). 
Colonel Godwin-Austen records the species Кот Harmutti in the Dafla Hills (J. A. S. Beng. xlv. 
p. 72, 1576), and also from the Japvo Peak of the Burrail range, at an elevation of nearly 
11,000 feet (op. cit. xliii. p. 159). It also extends its range into the Eastern Himalayas, as 
Hodgson obtained a specimen in Nepal, but one named JM. fuscata from the Bhotan Dooars, in 
the Hume Collection, is referred by Mr. Oates to M. atrigularis (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 129). 
Тһе Dusky Ouzel has not yet been detected in the British Isles, but it has occurred in many 
of the countries of Europe. Professor Martorelli, in his essay on the occurrence of the Thrushes of 
Siberia within European limits, gives a list of the occurrences of Merula fuscata in the European 
area (Ornis, 1901, pp. 255-258). It would seem that the species has occurred in the following 
countries of the Western Palearctic Region :—South of France, September 1815, December 1856 
(Jaubert et Barthélemy-Lapommeraye) ; Russia, near Moscow, August 30, 1865 (Таса. Faune Оп. 
Sibir. Orient. p. 294); Bergamo, Lombardy, February 18, 1893 (Mus. Arrigoni degli Oddi). To 
these records may be added a male bird shot at Radda in Chianti (Tuscany) on the 25th of 
November, 1879, and now in the collection of Italian birds in the Florence Museum (Giglioli, 
lbis, 1881, p. 197). Specimens from the south of France are in the Marseilles Museum (Fagle 
Clarke, Ibis, 1895, p. 184). There is also a young bird recorded by Саке from Heligoland, 
caught in October 1880 (Vogelw. Helgol. p. 256, 1891; Seebohm, Ibis, 1892, p. 7). Dr. Ғайо 
mentions a specimen in the Frey-Hérosé collection in the Museum of Aarau in Switzerland, which is 
believed to have been taken in that country (Faune Vertébr. Suisse, ii p. 550, 1899) It has 
occurred more than once in Germany, but apparently never in France (ef. Dresser, В. Eur. 
ii. p. 64). 
