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too vague to allow of its correct determination, as no mention is made of the white eyebrow, or of 
the white on the outer tail-feathers or on the under surface of the wing. Yet the species can hardly 
be Merula atrigularis, which would never be described ав“ slaty-black," nor could the chestnut 
flanks of Merula protomomelena have been passed over without mention. 
Тһе Siberian Ground-Thrush is ап occasional visitor to Central and Western Europe. About a 
dozen examples have been met with in Germany. Besides the one from the island of Rügen 
mentioned above, there is the immature male recorded by Naumann from the Harz Mountains, as 
weli as one from Prussian Silesia obtained on the 22nd of October, 1828; while a third from Halber- 
stadt and two procured between Berlin and Stettin are also noticed by him (Vóg. Deutschl. xiii. 
p. 361). А seventh German example, a female, was shot at Elbing, near the Gulf of Danzig, on the 
25th of August 1851, and is now in the collection of Von Homeyer in Stolp (cf. Seebohm, Brit. 
Birds, i. p. 204). 
There are two examples (one adult, the ot 
at Neustadt in Mark Brandenburg, Prussia, which are said to have been proc 
hood (Schalow, J. f. O. 1876, p. 142). A male was shot on the 10th of October, 1878, at Treptan 
near the coast of Pomerania between Stettin and Stolp (Altum, J. £.'O. 1878, p. 107). А specimen 
in the Museum of the Forstakademie at Eberswald, between Berlin and Stettin, is said to have been 
caught in the neighbourhood (Altum, J. £ O. 1879, p. 216). There is an example in the Museum of 
the Univerity at Breslau which is said to have been procured in the Province of Silesia (Floericke, 
J. f. O. 1891, p. 191). 
It has occurred twice in Holland; an immature male was shot in September, 1853, near 
Paterswolde in the Province of Drenthe, and a still younger male was caught on the 1st of October, 
1856, near Noordwyk in the Province of South Holland (Blaauw, Notes Leyden Mus. xv. p. 189). 
According to Dr. Dubois, a single occurrence is known from Belgium, a young male having been 
caughi near Neufcháteau late in September, 1877 (Bull Acad. Roy. Belgique, (2) xlvii. no. 6). 
According to Degland and Gerbe (Orn. Eur. i. p. 418) a young male bird was killed in 1847 by 
M. Loche in the marshes of the Saintongue. The species is figured by Jaubert and Barthélemy- 
Lapommeraye in their * Richesses Ornithologiques ” (pl. xiii. fig. 2). Тһе occurrence of the species 
in Italy was recorded by Prof. Giglioli (Ibis, 1881, p. 196); but he has recently come to the 
conclusion that the specimen was only an extraordinary variety of the Common Blackbird, and he 
has withdrawn the Siberian Thrush from the list of Italian birds (Avif. Ital. p. 93). А specimen was 
shot near Kustendji, in Bulgaria, by Mr. A. Cullen (cf. Elwes & Buckley, Ibis, 1890, p. 196). 
As regards its occurrence in England, a specimen of this Thrush is said to have been caught at 
Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight, in the winter of 1874, but Mr. Howard Saunders does not consider 
the evidence sufficient to warrant the inclusion of the species in the British list (Man. Brit. Birds, 
p.12). The second example recorded from England is in the British Museum, to which it was 
bequeathed by the late Mr. Frederick Bond, to whose collection it formerly belonged. It was sold to 
him as a variety of the Redwing, and was said to have been killed between Guildford and Godalming 
in the winter of 1860-61. 
Тһе Siberian Ground-Thrush breeds in the valleys of the Yenesei and the Lena near the Arctic 
Circle. I found it in latitude 664° near the junction of the Kureika and the Yenesei (Seebohm, Ibis, 
1879, p. 5), and Dr. Théel says that it breeds in great numbers near Toorukhansk (lat. 66% N.), and 
was seen as far north as latitude 67° (Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 191). Mr. Н. Leybourne Pophan, in his 
account of the birds observed by him on the Yenesei River (Ibis, 1897, p. 92), writes as follows :— 
“This handsome Thrush was often to be seen perched on the top of a tree, whistling a few rich notes, 
but owing to its extreme wariness it was difficult to approach within shot, and it was only by careful 
stalking that we managed to obtain three skins, all of males. It was most numerous around 
her immature) in the Museum of the Forstakademie 
ured in the neighbour- 
