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ATRIGTJLARIS, T u r d us Temminck *.
THE BLACK-THROATED THRUSH.
A n o t h e r eastern bird of well-marked migratory disposition
and a northern range sufficiently high to send it occasionally
on its autumnal passage wandering over western Europe, is
the Black-throated Thrush above figured. Of this species
a young male example, shot near Lewes, December 23rd,
1868, was on the same day taken to Mr. T. J. Monk ol
that town, and now forms part of his choice collection.
Mr. Gould recorded the capture in ‘ The Ibis ’ for January,
1869 (p. 128), and a note to the same purpose from the
owner of the specimen is printed in the ‘ Zoologist ’ for
February (s.s. p. 1560), while the latter permitted Mr.
Rowley, who himself saw the bird before it was skinned, to
exhibit it at a meeting of the Zoological Society on the 14th
* Man. d'Orn. Ed. 2, i. p. 169 (1820).
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of January (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 4). Since also the species
has long been known to occur in neighbouring countries, and
may probably have been overlooked in our own,* its introduction
to the present work, as to that of Mr. Gould, seems to
be justifiable.
Of the habits of the Black-tliroated Thrush but little is
known. Though it is presumably of Siberian origin, it does
not seem to have come under the notice of Pallas or any of the
naturalists who have followed more immediately in his track;
whence it may he concluded that it does not in summer push so
far to the northward as the countries investigated by them.
Prof. Eversmann speaks of it in the ‘ Bulletin ’ of the Society
of Naturalists of Moscow (xxiii. pt. 2, p. 571) as being not rare
in the Southern Altai. Mr. Jerdon says it occurs “ throughout
the Himalayas, inhabiting the higher ranges m the interior,
in summer, but descending to the lower ranges m winter;
and it is even occasionally found in the plains of Lower
Bengal.” He adds, that it “ keeps to the more open woods,
at a^level from 3,000 to 8,000 feet, and is occasionally seen
on roads and pathways.” Beavan was informed by the late
Dr. Scott that it was tolerably abundant about Umballa in t le
cold weather, and Mr. Blytli has known it shot near Calcutta.
How often the Black-tliroated Thrush has occurred m
Europe, or whether it is, as some assert, an actual inhabitant
of the eastern parts of this quarter of the globe, cannot easily
be said; for dire confusion has existed in the determination
of several of the Asiatic Thrushes. Naumann states that it has
been observed in the Caucasus, New Russia, the Carpathians,
Dalmatia, Lower Italy and Sardinia, but gives no authority
for the several assertions, some of which may be doubted.
Hungary is added by Brehm and Silesia by Gloger. ^ Herr von
Pelzeln mentions two examples captured m Austria—one o
them at Aspang in October, 1823, and now in the Vienna
Museum. HII. Brandt, Jiickel and Von der Muhle say that a
* A specimen in the Museum of the University of Edinburgh, mentioned by
Macgillivray (Br. B. ii. p. 117) as a supposed hybrid between the Mistletoe-
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