THE SIBERIAN GROUND-THRUSH. 
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reaching to the nape ; quills dark brown, all except the first two with 
a large white patch on the inner web ; tail dark brown^ the outer feathers 
tipped with white. 
Female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with slaty and 
rufescent on the outer webs of the wing-feathers and wing-coverts ; tail 
with the three outer pairs of feathers tipped white ; eye-stripe, chin and 
throat buff ; a stripe on either side the chin dark brown ; sides of the head 
mixed brown and buff ; lower plumage pale buffy white, each feather with 
a broad tipping of brown ; axillaries white, tipped with brown ; under 
tail-coverts and vent white, splashed with brown. 
Young birds are probably like the female . 
Adult males had the bills black ; irides deep brown ; the front of legs, 
feet and claws greenish yellow ; back of legs dirty yellow. Females had 
the irides dark brown ; the upper mandible very dark brown ; the lower 
mandible and gape to angle of gonys dirty yellow ; legs, feet and claws 
orange-yellow. [Davison.) 
Length 9 inches, tail 3*4, wing 4*8, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1"I. The 
female is about the same size. 
The Siberian Ground-Thrush is a winter visitor to Burmah. Capt. 
Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee in March, at an elevation of 
2500 feet. Mr. Davison found it rare on Mooleyit mountain, but very 
common round the foot of Nwalabo, further south. I did not meet with 
it in Pegu, nor is it recorded from Arrakan. 
This Thrush has a very wide range. It summers in Siberia and 
Japan, and in winter visits China and has been found as far south 
as Java. 
Mr. Davison observes that it goes about in flocks, as many as sixty 
being seen together, and they particularly frequented, in the mornings and 
evenings, large trees of a species of fig, then in fruit (April) . Mr. Seebohm 
remarks that it is a very shy bird ; and one which he observed in Siberia 
was feeding amongst the dead leaves on the ground. 
