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russet-brown ; quills dusky brown, externally russet-brown, with 
a pale margin to the first primary ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 
with a russet tinge, the two outer ones with a tiny spot of white 
at the tip ; head a little more russet than the back, the eye- 
stripe fulvous and not so distinct as in the male ; ear-coverts 
ochreous-buff mottled with blackish edgings to the feathers ; 
cheeks ochraceous with a blackish line above and below, form- 
ing a distinct moustachial streak ; under surface of body ochra- 
ceous, whiter on the throat, which is spotted with dusky ; the 
fore-neck and breast slightly more rufous, and mottled with 
blackish subterminal bars to the feathers, less marked on the 
sides of the body and flanks; lower breast and abdomen puie 
white; thighs brown; under tail-coverts white, with dusky 
bases ; under wing-coverts ochraceous brown ; axillaries white 
with brown tips ; quills dusky below with the wing-band buffy- 
white ; “ bill dark brown, the lower mandible and gape dirty 
yellow to the angle of the gape ; feet and claws orange-yellow ; 
iris dark brown.” ( IV. Davison.) Total length, 9 inches ; cul- 
men, o'8; wing, 4'5 ; tail, ,yo ; tarsus, I'oj. 
Young Birds of the year may be distinguished by the pale ochre 
tips to the wing-coverts. 
Kange in Great Britain. — The late Mr. h rederic Bond pos- 
sessed a specimen of this bird, which was sold to him 
by a dealer as a variety of the Redwing, which had been 
killed between Guildford and Godalming in the winter of 
1860-61. Mr. Bond thoroughly believed in its genuineness, 
and the specimen was one of the few which he wished to come 
to the British Museum on his death, and which he bequeathed 
to that institution in his will. Mr. Saunders has reason to 
believe that a second example was picked up exhausted at Lon- 
church, in the Isle of Wight, in the winter of 1874, but he does 
not consider the evidence good enough to include die species 
in the British List. After all, however, there is nothing so 
wonderful in the occasional visit ot this bird to Great Britain, 
as it has occurred in several countries of Europe, and Mr. See- 
bohm very aptly draws attention to the fact that thirty yeats 
ago it would not have been easy for any dealer to have obtained 
a specimen of the Siberian Thrush, even if he had wished to 
palm it off as British-killed, so rare was the bird in collections 
