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quills dusky-brown, externally washed with olive-brown, more 
broadly on the inner secondaries, where the olive colour occu- 
pies the outer web and forms a contrast to the dark brown of 
the inner web ; all the quills with pale fringes at the tips, more 
distinct on the inner secondaries ; the primaries edged with 
ashy towards the end of the outer web ; tail-feathers dark 
brown with pale fringes to the tips ; crown of head more ashy- 
olive than the back, with the centres of the feathers rather 
darker : lores, feathers in front of and below the eye, fore part 
of cheeks, throat and chest black ; the ear-coverts and hindei 
cheeks dark ashy-olive, like the sides of the neck, the latter 
slightly mixed with black ; breast and abdomen white, the 
sides of the body and flanks greyish, with a few dusky streaks 
on the sides of the upper breast; thighs light ashy-brown ; 
under tail-coverts white, with brown bases ; auxiliaries and under 
wing-coverts rich chestnut, the former edged with white ; edge 
of win« white ; lower primary-coverts dusky, like the under sur- 
face of the quills, which are reddish along the inner web ; bill 
blackish-brown, dusky yellow at the base of the lower mandible ; 
feet and claws greyish-brown; iris blackish-brown, total 
length, 10 inches ; culmen, o'8 ; wing, S‘4 ; tail, 37 ; tarsus, 
1 ' 25 - 
Adult Female. — Different from the male, and lacking the black 
on the face, throat, and chest ; ear-coverts and sides of face 
ashy-olive, with a faint whitish eyebrow ; cheeks and throat 
white, with dusky blackish spots on the cheeks, sides of throat 
and fore-neck ; breast and sides of body ashy-brown, streaked 
with dusky brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts orange- 
chestnut. Total length, 9 inches; wing, 5‘i. 
Range in Great Britaiu—A very rare visitor, having only been 
identified once, when a young male was shot near Dewes on 
the 23rd of December, 1868, and passed into the collection of 
Mr. T. T. Monk. As the species has been several times ob- 
tained at various places on the continent of Euiope it may 
occur more frequently in the British Islands than has been 
generally supposed. 
Range outside the British Islands.-The Black-throated Ouzel 
is a Siberian bird, breeding in the valley of the Yenesei, and 
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