BLACK-THROATED OUZEL.
Turdus atrogularis, Temm. Man. d’Ora. i. p. 169 (1820); Tacz. Faun. Orn. Sibir. Orient, p. 305
(1891).
Turdus lechsteini, Naum. Vog. Deutschl. ii. p. 310 (1829).
Cichloides lechsteini, Kaup, Natürl. Syst. p. 153 (1829).
Sylvia atrogularis, Savi, Orn. Tosc. iii. p. 203 (1831).
Merula atrogularis, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. p. 17 (1838); Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit.
Mus. v. p. 269 (1881); id. Hist. Brit. B. i. p. 249 (1883) ; Oates, Fauñ. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii.
p. 131 (1890).
Turdus varicollis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 148, nos. 198, 199, pi. 149,
nosr-198, 199.
Merula leucogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 149 (1847). *
Planesticus atrogularis, Bp. Cat. Coll. Parzudaki, p. 5 (1854); Hume & Henders. Lahore to
Yark. p. 192 (1873),
Cichloides atrigularis, Tytler, Ibis, 1869, p. 124; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 179 (1873).
Turdus mystacinus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 118, 119 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875,
p. 332.
M. rostro nigro, mandíbula flavá: gutture et praepectore nigris : corpore reliquo subtüs albo, hypocbondriis
cinerascentibus : cauda saturate brunneá.
T he Black-throated Ouzel breeds in Siberia and in the mountains of Central Asia; it winters
in Northern India and the Himalayas, east to Assam and westwards to Baluchistan and Persia,
having lately been found also at Yeshbum, in South Arabia. During its winter wanderings
it has, on several occasions, been procured in Europe, and has twice been noticed in the
British Islands.
Seebohm, in his ‘ History of British Birds,’ gives the following notes Its occurrence was
first recorded by Mr. T. J. Monk, into whose possession the specimen came, in the ‘ Zoologist ’ for
February 1869, p. 1560, thus: ‘On Wednesday, 23rd of December, a fine example of the Black-
throated Thrush was shot near Lewes. The bird, which proved on dissection to be a male, was in
excellent condition, and, having been carefully handled, was in fine order for preservation, and in
this respect has received ample justice from the hands of Mr. Swaysland of Brighton, where it may
be seen.’ Mr. G. D. Rowley also, brought the circumstances before the Zoological Society of
London, where the bird was exhibited.”
Mr. Gould further described the specimen in the * Ibis,’ and afterwards figured it in his ‘ Birds of
Great Britain.’
A second specimen of the Black-throated Ouzel was shot on the banks of the Tay, near Perth, in
February 1879, and was recorded by the late Colonel Drummond-Hay in the ‘ Ib is’ for 1889
(p. 579). Strange to say, this second occurrence has been overlooked by most recent writers on
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