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feather of tlie axillaries, under wmg-coverts, belly, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts narrowly margined with greyish white ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts, sometimes one or both, greyish white. Bill 

 yellow. AVings with the thii'd, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly 

 equal and longest, second primary intermediate in length between 

 the sixth and seventh, bastard primary 1-25 to 0-S5 inch. Legs, feet, 

 and claws deep yellow. Length of wing 5-9 to 5-25 inches, tail 4-G5 

 to 4-1 (females 3-G2 to 3-12), culmcn 1-1 to 0-9, tarsus 1-41 to 1-27. 



The female differs from the male in having the black parts replaced 

 by olive-brown and the greyish white on the wings by brownish 

 white. Birds of the year scarcely cUffer from adults, except that in 

 the males the underparts are greyer and the greyish white on the 

 wings is darker, and in the females the brownish white on the wings 

 is russet-brown. Young in first pluvuu/e resemble adults, but have 

 pale shaft-lines to the feathers of the upper parts and pale centres 

 to the feathers of the underparts. 



The Grey-winged Ouzel breeds throughout the Himalayas from 

 Kmnaon to Assam, descending into the valleys during the cold season. 



a-d. (S , e. 5 ad. sk. 

 /, (J. S imm. sk. 



h, i. cJ 5 ^^- s'^- 

 k, I. S ad.; m. 5 ad. sk. 

 n. 2 ad.; o,p. Imm.sk. 

 q. (S ad. ; r. Juv. sk. 

 s,t. c? 2 juv. sk. 



u. (S ad. sk. 



X. Juv. st. 



J/, c? ad. st. 



s. Imm. sk. 



a', b'. (S $ sternum. 



Cashmere (Dr. Belleiu). 

 N.W. Himalayas. 



Kumaon (Strachei/). 



Nepal. 



Nepal (Hodgsoii). 



Darjiliug {I'earsoti). 



Daijiliug. 



DarjiUng (Eccles). 



Pliinalayas. 

 Himalayas. 

 Darjiliug (i»r.5e//c!t'). 



Nepal. 



India Museum. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 

 will [P.]. 



India Museum. 



B.H.Hodgson,Esq.[P.]. 



India Museum. 



India Museum. 



J. Fotberingham, Esq. 

 [C.]. 



F. Godman and O. 

 Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



ludia Museum. 



B.II.Hodgsou,Esq.[P.]. 



17. Merula mareensis. 



Merula mareensis {Lay. et Tristr.)*. 



Turdus vanikorensis, Quoi/ ct Gaim. Vay. Astral. Zool. i. p. 188, pi. vii. 



Hg. 2 (1830); Gray, B. Trop. Id. p. 10 (18o9, partim); id. 



JSand-l. B. i. p. 255. no. 3713 (18G9, partim); Tristram, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 188. 

 Geoeichla vanikorensis (Qxoy et Gaim.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 268(1850). 

 Turdus mareensis, Zaycird ^- Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 472. 



In the adult male the general colour of the upper parts is an almost 

 uniform dark brown approaching black, on the back quite black ; a 

 very indistinct pale-brown eye-stri])e reaching from the back of the 

 eye to the nape. Underparts dark brown, shading into nearly white 

 on the centre of the belly ; under tail-coverts brown, with pale 



* The nniiie of .V. ranienroisis (Qiioy et Gaim.) cannot be used for this species, 

 because, in the first place, it has been extensively misapplied to the Samoan 

 species, and, in the second place, because it ■would be misleading if, as seems 

 probable, this species has never occurred on Vanikoro. 



