Appearance
The total length of the white-throated thrush is an average of 18.5 cm [5] . General addition like all stone thrushes. The plumage is variegated (red at the bottom, blue, black and red at the top), the tail is rather short. The male has a head , neck, and small covering wings of blue-blue color, the back, sides of the head, wings and tail are brown-black, the ventral side of the body, including the frenulum and sides of the neck are rusty-brown, with a wide white longitudinal strip and white spots on the throat wings.
In the female , the upper side of the body is brownish-gray, with a black transverse pattern, the top of the head is gray, the bottom is whitish with transverse dark brown mottles. The young bird has a plumage pattern, in general resembling the pattern of a female. The main color of the feather is dark, black-brown, slightly grayish to the base, in front of the top of the feather there is a yellowish-brown wide apical stripe. The ventral side is dirty ocher with blackish-brown mottled. Blackish flyworms (males) or brownish (females), bases of minor flyworms in males with a bright spot. The torsion is reddish, brighter in males, paler in females.
Singing
The singing consists of long flute notes of a minor character, and the whistle develops into complicated phrases that always sound very solemn [6] . Usually, during the singing, the bird sits in place and rarely, apparently, at the time of mating , flies from the top of the tree to the top and sings short stanzas on the fly. In general, the character of the song somewhat resembles the singing of a blue stone thrush , the best singer among all the birds of Eastern Siberia .
Distributed in Primorye and Amur . The most western location is in Transbaikalia . In 1947, a brood was met and 2 spoils were mined near Mount Alkhanay . Northwest of the forest, a stone thrush is found near Lake Tasey, in the southern part of the Vitim plateau . Also found in the upper reaches of the Chita River and at the Loach of Saranakan. To the east it is noted along the Amur River , near the Kumara River , near Jalinda and in the Zeya Valley in the tract Bomnak. Another forest stone thrush is known at the nesting site of the Gorin River and on Lake Evoron . Outside the USSR, a forest stone thrush was found in the northern part of Korea and, apparently, nests there. It most likely nests in Zhili, and in Manchuria it spreads west to Greater Khingan . It was also found in the south of Gansu . Winters in East Indochina and in East China [6] . It lives on the forested mountainsides.
Each couple occupies a vast area. Vigorous singing continues until mid- June , weaker only in the morning and evening until the tenth of July. Nests are made very simply - from dry grass and a small amount of moss , they are usually placed on the ground, on the trunk of a fallen tree or on a stump. Egg laying time: May - June. In clutch usually 5-7 eggs [7] . Eggs of white color with small rusty-brown dots and specks, thicker on the dull end of the egg. The average egg size is 21 x 16 mm. The duration of incubation is more than 2 weeks [8] . Usually chicks leave the nest, not yet knowing how to fly well.
It feeds on various invertebrates and berries .
