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of this species, according to Seebohrn * (the only English 

 writer who, so far as I am aware, treats of it in detail 

 as a British bird), is in the valleys of the great rivers 

 Yenesay and Lena in Siberia, between lat. 07° and 68°, 

 and it also breeds in Japan. It winters in China, 

 Burma, Sumatra, and Java, and has once occurred in 

 the Andaman Islands. In the work from which I 

 quote the above localities will be found an account of 

 the writer's personal acquaintance with this species, 

 which is too long to transcribe in extenso. It amounts 

 to his having occasionally met with this Thrush in 

 Siberia, near the village of Koorayika, on the Arctic 

 Circle, haunting birch-plantations ; it seems that it is 

 an exceedingly wary bird, and Seebohm only succeeded 

 in shooting one specimen, a fine male in adult plumage. 

 It was, however, well known to the inhabitants as the 

 Black Thrush, or, I should rather say, by two Russian 

 words with that signification. These natives informed 

 the author that the bird was by no means uncommon 

 during the breeding-season at Toorokansk. It is said 

 to be possessed of a not very loud but sweet song, and 

 is a favourite cage-bird in Japan. Seebohm concludes 

 his description of the habits of the species with the 

 words " Nothing whatever is known of its eggs or nest." 

 The volume from which I am quoting is dated 1883, 

 and I am not aware of any information on the latter 

 particulars having been recorded since that time. This 

 Thrush is a very rare straggler into Europe, but 

 has been met with in various localities in Northern 

 Germany, in the Hartz Mountains, the island of Riigen, 

 France, Belgium, Italy, and Turkey. 



* ' British Birds,' vol. i. pp. 204, 205. 



