ME R Ü L A O B SC U R A {Gm.).
EYEBROWED OUZEL.
Dark Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 31 (1783).
Turdus obscurm, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 816 (1788); Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 367; Hume & Davis.
Str. F. vi. p. 251 (1878); David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 153 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 130
(1888) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 4 ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 59 (1884); Stejn.
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 307 (1885) ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. Petersb. (7) xxxix. p. 306
(1891),
Turdus ochrogaster, Sparrm. Mus. Carlss. iv. pi. 85 (1789).
Turduspollens, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 457 (1811); Temm. & Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves,
p. 63, pi. xxvii. (1847).
Turdus seyffertitzii, Brehm, Lehrb. eur. Vog. ii. p. 972 (1824).
Turdus rufulus, Drap. Diet. Class. d’Hist. Nat. x. p. 443 (1826),
Turdus wemeri, Gen6, Mem. Ac. Torino, xxxvii. p. 296, pi. 2 (1834).
Turdus pallidus (nec Gm.), Temm. Man. d’Orn. iii. p. 97 (1835); Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i.
p. 402 (1867) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. pt. 2, p. 196 (1876).
Turdus modestus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103.
Planesticus obscurus, Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 5 (1856).
Turdus davidianus, Milne-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. i., Bull. p. 26 (1865).
Turdus chrysolaus (neo Temm.), Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 101 (1870);
Dybowski, Bull. Soc. Zoo). France, 1883, p. 476.
Geocichla obscura, Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 136.
Turdulus pallens, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, p. 178 (1874).
Merula obscura, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 273 (1881); Pleske, Wissench. Result.
Przeiv. Reis. ii. p. 16 (1889); Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 134 (1890).
M. rostro fusco, mandibulfi, flava: pileo dorso fere concolore, minimi n ig ro : axillaribus grisescentibus, haud
bypochondriis aurantiacis concoloribus : supercilio distincto albo insignis.
1'h is Ouzel is found from the Yalley of the Yenesei eastwards to Kamtchatka. In winter it
migrates to India, China, and the Malay Archipelago, and during that season it has occurred on
several occasions in Europe.
In the Valley of the Yenesei this species was first met with by Mr. Seebohm during his
celebrated expedition to Siberia in 1878. He writes:—“ During the first week of June the forests
were practically impassable. The deep snow was in process of melting, and too soft to bear
the weight even when distributed over a pair of snow-shoes each measuring 4 feet 6 inches long and
10, inches wide. On some of the steeper slopes exposed to the sonth, small oases of bare ground
were to be found. One of these, close behind my quarters, thinly covered over with bushes, was a
very prolific, hunting-ground for me during the spring migration. On this piece of ground, on the
7th of June, I had the pleasure of shooting my first brace of Dark Thrushes (the Turdrn pallens of