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fous tawny; abdomen pure white; crissum and under tail-coverts 

 white, broadly edged witli dusky washed with tawny; head, neck, and 

 tail uniform black ; bastard wing, primary coverts, inner webs of ter- 

 tiaries, outer secondaries, and primaries black, the outer ones of the 

 latter externally edged with whitish in their terminal half; under tail- 

 coverts, axillaries, and tibiiie blackish gray, more or less tipped with 

 whitish. jSTaked eye-ring yellow; bill yellow, tip of upper mandible 

 dusky ; feet horny brown. 



9 ad. (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 111366; Namiye coll. No. Uc; Miyake. 

 shima, Idzu ; May 3, 1887). Similar to the male, but i)aler, and head 

 and neck essentially different; upper neck, as well as to}) and sides of 

 head, like the back, but slightly grayer, lores more blackish, and ear- 

 coverts with whitish shaft-streaks; sides of neck similar, but suffused 

 with tawny; fore-neck white, laterally streaked with dark brownish 

 gray; bastard wing, primary coverts, and remiges dark brownish gray 

 edged with dull raw umber; tail-feathers similar; under wing-coverts^ 

 axillaries, and tibi;ie dull drab gray, more or less tipped with whitish. 

 Naked eye-ring yellowish; upper mandible horny brown, lower mandi- 

 ble yellow ; legs horny brown. 



TVuig-formida. 



$ ad. — First primary nearly equals nearest primary covert ; sec )Qd somewhat shorter 

 thau the sixth ; third, fourth, and fifth longest, fourth but slightly longer than 

 the other two. 



9 ad.— First primary equals longest primary covert ; second between fifth and sixth ; 

 third, fourth, and fifth longest, third but slightly longer than the other tvro. 



Outer webs of third, fourth, and fifth primaries strongly sinuated. 



Measurements. 



;s;^ 



111665 

 111666 



Collector and 

 No. 



Namiye, 14 . 

 Namiye, 14c 



Locality. 



cT ad. j Miyakeshima, Idzu. 

 adi do 



Date. 



May 3, 1887 

 May 3, 1887 



245 

 240 



Mr. Namiye has kindly sent me a sketch of the eggs of this species, 

 as well as those of Turdus clirysolaus and T. cardis. The eggs of the 

 latter two species have already been described by Mr. P. L. Jouy (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1883, pp. 277, 279). Curiously enough those of 

 T. celcenops show a greater resemblance to the eggs of T. cardis as far 

 as color is concerned than to those of the more closely related T. chry- 

 solaus, but the shape is somewhat different, apparently agreeing better 

 with those of the latter species. 



11. (256) Monticola solitaria (Mill.). 



S a^J. in chestnut plumage, Igamura, Miyakeshima, May 3, 1887. (U. 

 S. Nat. Mus. No. 1II661.) '' Common on all the islands " (Namiye). 



