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Merula (?) aurantia. 



741S8 



Merula gymnopMhalma. 



MeeuLtA Leach. 



<:ilhS.—Turdm Lin., Syst. Nat. x ed. I, p. 168. 



<,1816. — Merula Leach, Cat. Mamm. Birds Br. Mus. (p. 20) nee. Koch, 181G, 



quae Pastor. 

 yiSbO.—Hodoiporus Eeichb., Syst. Av. pi. LIII. (T yTpe jamaicensis.) 

 yiSbi.—Planesticus Bqnap., Coll. Delattre, p. 27 (nee 1856). 

 >1855.— Cic/iZojjsis G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Birds, p. 43 {nee Cab. 1850). (Type 



aurantius Gm.) 

 +1859.— Semimerula Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 18.59, p. 332. 

 -^1881.— Merulissima Seehohm, Cat. Birds Br. Mus.V, p. 232. 



Size large or moderate ; color more or less uniform, often black or 

 blackish in both sexes; when streaked, only the throat is marked with 

 dark streaks. Wing rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 being longest, the third not commonly longer than the fifth; second 

 primary not longer than four times the first; secondaries long, the dis- 

 tance from the tip of the longest primary to that of the longest second- 

 ary never being longer than the distance from the latter point to the tip 

 of the longest of the greater wing-coverts. Bill stout ; culmen arched 

 from the base: 



