Pallas, but not the Turdus pallidus of Gmelin). A couple of days after I shot two more on
the same ground. As soon as the-forests were passable I made daily rambles, and almost always
heard the song of this bird. Turdus dubius had gone further north to breed ; but this species was
evidently stopping and making preparations to build its nest. . . I did not meet with this interesting
Thrush farther north than the Arctic Circle; but on my return journey, in lat. 66°, on the 3rd of
August (and afterwards in lat. 63°, on the 6th of August), I shot the young in first plumage, with
spotted backs and spotted breasts ” (Ibis, 1879, pp. 4, 5).
On his expedition to the Yenesei in 1896, Mr. H. Leybourne Popham did not succeed in finding
the nest of this Thrush, and only obtained a single specimen on the Kamina Tungooska River (Ibis,
1897, p. 92). On his third visit to the Yenesei, Mr. Popham was more fortunate, as he found three
nests at Inbatskaya (lat. 64° N.) ; but the species was not noticed at Yeniseisk (Ibis, 1898, p. 493).
In Taczanowski’s work on the birds of Eastern Siberia occur the following notes, summarizing
the observations of the Russian naturalists on the present species. Godlèwski states that it is
common in the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal and throughout the whole of Dauria, but is more
plentiful in the former country than in the latter. During migration it associates with other
Thrushes, especially with M. rvjicollis, M. fuscatus, and M. naumanni, but it arrives much later
than all the others, and does not put in an appearance till the latter part of May. A' large proportion
of these birds remain to nest in the southern part of thè Lake Baikal region, commencing to
build in the first half ,of the month of June. Dybowski found the species much rarer in the
Ussuri region than in Dauria. Dr. Radde observed the first pair on the Tarei-noor on the 15th of
May, 1856, and in the autumn the migration commenced during the first half of September,
and the birds were most plentiful between the 14th and the 19th, while on the islands of the Onon
River isolated individuals were seen up to the 8th of October. In the Boureia Mountains the
chief passing of migrants took place on the 29th of September, when they followed the course
of the high forests skirting the Amur River. In the autumn of 1857 the migration commenced on
the 7th of September, and was at its height between the 19th and 21st of that month.
According to Dr. Dybowski, it is the commonest Thrush in Kamtchatka, arriving there at the
beginning of May, the young being able to fly at the end of June. Dr. Stejneger obtained^specimens
on Bering Island in June. He says that they visit the island in the spring, but without any regularity.
Tn 188b the first was observed on one of the first days of June, and during the week between
the 10th and l / t h of the same month two mâles and four females were secured ; they were extremely
shy and always met with singly.
Ih e species does not seem to have been noticed on the Kuril Islands, but must undoubtedly
occur there. The Seebohm Collection contains two examples from Yokohama {Fryer) and Nagasaki
(Ringer), but it was supposed by Blakiston (Amended List B. Japan, p. 26) not to occur on the
northern island of Yezo. A specimen procured at Hakodate by Mr. Henson is, however, recorded
by Dr. Stejneger (Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 317), who observes :—“ The scarcity of the Eyebrowed
Thrush in the northern portions of Japan is very remarkable, when we consider that it is common in
Kamtchatka.”
In his ‘Birds of the, Japanese Empire’ (p. 49), Mr. Seebohm remarks that it is a very rare
winter visitor to Japan. Two examples were in the Pryer Collection from Yokohama (Blakist. &
Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 166). He also records an example in the British Museum,
obtained by Capt. St. John near Nagasaki. Jouy writes (Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 277, 1883) that
it was rather rare at Tate-yama, and appeared to visit Shinshiu only in the autumn. I t was
generally found about streams and in thickets, and a few were caught on the hills by the bird-
catchers.
Holst procured a couple of specimens on Okinawashima in the Liu Kiu Archipelago, and
Mr. Alan Owston met with the species on Ishigaki on February 22nd and March 1st (Bangs, Bull.
Mus. C. Z. Harvard, xxxvi. p. 264). Kalinowski noticed it in Corea only on migration (Tacz.
P. Z. S. 1888, p. 454), and Mr. Campbell procured a female bird near Soul in May. He says that lie
only observed the species on one other occasion, in the forest-region south of Pâik-tu San,
on the 4th of October, and he thinks -that these two dates probably represent the two periods
during which it passes through Corea from its breeding-grounds to its winter-quarters, and vice versâ
(Ibis, 1892, p. 232).
Przewalski met with the species in S.E. Mongolia, in Ordos, and Alashan, but only as a late
migrant in spring. In S.E. Mongolia he obtained his first specimens on the 9th of May, 1871,
and in the following year in Alashan on the 20th of May. In autumn he met "with the species at
the end of August in the valley of the Chuan-che on migration, and in Alashan throughout half of
September. In 1880, on the autumn migration in the middle of September, he obtained specimens
in the south of the Gobi desert, and it was met with in Alashan at the end of August. On the 29tli
of October, 1884, a specimen of this Thrush was picked up dead not far from Gass, having met with
some accident or perhaps died of starvation. Przewalski says that both in spring and autumn
this species is met with in small parties of from three to ten individuals, which frequent the
treeless ^districts of the steppes or the saxoul-thickets, as, for instance, in Northern Alashan
(cf. Pleske, I. s. c.).
In Northern China and Mongolia, Abbé David says it is very abundant during the periods of
migration, nesting on the mountains and in the woods, and but seldom visiting the plains.
Père Hugh obtained two specimens in Shen-si (Sharpe, Ornis, 1901, p. 184), and Swinhoe records it
from Chefoo and other places. He says it is found from Malacca to Pekin, and westwards to
Szechuen (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 367). Abbé David also met with it in Moupin. Mr. Styan says that the
species passes through the Lower Yangtze Yalley on migration (Ibis, 1891, p. 318) -; it is scarce, but
has been noted at Shanghai in March and May. Mr. Rickett has sent specimens to the Museum
from Kuatun and Neuchang; and Mr. La Touche, in his paper on the birds of N.W. Fohkien, says
that this Thrush passes Kuatun in April, May, and November (Ibis, 1899, p. 177). He also records
it from Foochow in November, February, and the beginning of May, and says that two specimens
were obtained by his shooting-boy in April on the hills west of Swatow (Ibis, 1892, p. 413).
Mr. La Touche also found it very common near Foochow in November 1884, and lie shot
specimens at Peline.early in May, but it was not noticed in the plains during spring (Styan, Ibis, 1887,
p. 217). Swinhoe was the first to find the species in Formosa, where also Mr. La Touche obtained
a specimen on the 10th of March in the northern part of the island (Ibis, 1898, p. 356).
This Ouzel is said by Mr. Oates to be a more or less abundant visitor to the whole of Burma,
and many specimens are in the Hume Collection from Tenasserim, collected by Mr. Davison.
Colonel Rippon records it from Loi Maw, in the S. Shan States (7800 feet), in April (Ibis, 1901,
p. 544). I t is also found in Assam and the neighbouring provinces, for I find that the specimens in
the Godwin-Austen Collection from Cherra Poonji and the Eastern Naga Hills are true M. obscura,
and not M. fece, as Mr. Oates has made them out to be (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 135). Mr. Hume
says that the species was common in considerable-sized flocks in the eastern hills of Manipur, and
his collection contains several examples from Shillong, obtained by Mr. J. Cockburn (Str. F. xi.
p. 130). Mr. Stuart Baker procured one bird out of a flock of five on a high tree, at 3000 feet,
in North Cachar (Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. ix. p. 136, 1894).
The Assamese Provinces constitute very nearly the western range of the species on its
southward journey, but a straggler has been met with by Capt. Wimberley in the . island of