3. MERTJLA. 245 



The female is supposed to resemble the male. Birds of the year 

 and young in first plumage appear to be unknown. 



The dark form of the Great Brown Ouzel is found in Peru and 

 Bolina. 



The British Museum does not possess a skin of this form, but 

 examijles are in Dr. Sclater's collection and in my own. 



13. Merula albocincta. 



Turdus alboeinctus, Hoyle, lUustr. Ilimal. But. p. Lsxvii, pi. viii, 



fig. 3 (1839): Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 255. no. 3704 (1869). 

 Tm'dus albicollis, Royle, loc. cit. (1839) j Gray, Gen. ^. i. p. 219 



(1847). 

 Tm-dus coUaris, Soret, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 2. 

 Merula nivicollis, Hodgs. MS. Drcnn'ngs (in the Brit. Mus.) of Birds 



of XepaJ, Passeres, pi. 155. nos. 182, 183, pi. 156. nos. 182, 183, 



unde Hodys. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Memla albociucta (Boyle), Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xvi. p. 148 (1847) ; 



Blyf/i, Cat. B. Mus. As. &c.p. 162 (1849) ; Jlorsf ^- Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 197 (1854) ; Goidd, B! Asia, ii. pi. 76 



(1859) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 526 (1862) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. Sfc. 



Nepal Coll. Hodys. p. 42 (1863) ; Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xli. pt. 2, 



p. 49 (1872); Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. Beny.xlv. pt. 2, p. 196 



(1876) ; Scully, Stray Feat/i. viii. p. 285 (1879). 

 Turdus albicinctus (Boyle), Bp. Consp. i. p. 274 (1850). 



In the adult male in spring plumage the general colour of the 

 upper parts is a rich glossy black, shading into brown on the fore- 

 head, and abruptly interrupted on the neck with a nearly white 

 collar, which extends completely round the neck, and is more or less 

 streaked with dark brown between the checks, leaving the rest of the 

 underparts a dark sooty brown ; under tail-coverts occasionally a 

 uniform dark brown, but generally haviug white tips and shafts. 

 Bill yellow. Wing with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly 

 equal and longest, second primary equal to or slightly shorter than 

 the sixth, bastard primary 1-15 to O'SSinch. Legs, feet, and claws 

 pale yellow. Length of wing 5-8 to 5-1 inches, tail 4-55 to 4*0, 

 culmen 1-15 to 1-U3, tarsus 1-4 to 1-20. 



The female differs from the male in having the white collar palo 

 grey on the hind neck, the general colour of the tipper parts brown, 

 and of the • underparts brown obscurely barred with grey. The 

 immature male resembles the female, but has the collar whiter. 

 Birds of the year and young in first plumage appear to be unknown. 



The White-coUared Ouzel appears to be confined to the Himalayas 

 from Xepal to Assam, breeding at high elevations and descending 

 lower in the valleys in winter. 



a. S ad.sk. Bengal (iJcyfe). India Museiun. (Type of 



Turdus alhociiictus, Royle.) 

 6, e. c? ? ad.sk. N.W.Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



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 d. S ad. sk. Simla. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 



