3. MEETJLA, 251 



a. cjad.sk. Matlieran, Bombay, Jan. 23, 1872. MajorHayesLloyd [P.]. 

 6. cJad. sk. Matheran, Feb. 3, 1872. Major Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Madras. Sir W. Elliot [P.]. 



19, Merula simillima. 



Turdus simillimus, Jerd. Madr. Jmirn. x. p. 253 (1839) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 219 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 274 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 255. no. 3G98 (1869). 

 Merula simillima {Jerd.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 162 (1849); 



Jerd. B. litd. i. p. 524 (1862) ; Hume, Nests and Egys Ind. B. 



p. 232 (1873). 



In the adult male the head and lores are dark sooty brown, 

 approaching black, shading into dark ash-grey, which is the general 

 colonr of the rest of the upper parts, except the inside webs of the 

 quills and tail-feathers, which are dark sooty brown. Underparts, 

 inckiding the axillaries and under wing-coverts, are almost uniform 

 darkish brown, slightlj' paler on the bellj^, and with a few nearly 

 white feathers near the vent. Bill orange. ^Mngs with the third, 

 fourth, and fifth primaries nearly -equal and longest, second pri- 

 mary intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh, 

 bastard primary 1'15 to 1-0 inch. Legs, feet, and claws yellow. 

 Length of wing 5"1 to 4-7 inches, tail 4-1 to 3-8, culmen 1-1 to I'O, 

 tarsus 1-38 to 1-3. 



The female scarcely differs from the male. The young in first 

 plumage have pale shaft-streaks and dark transverse terminal bars 

 to the feathers of the head, upper back, and scapulars, and most of 

 the feathers of the underj)arts are similarly marked. 



The Neilgherry Ouzel appears to be confined to the Xeilgherry 

 hills in South-west India, where it is supposed to be a resident. 



a. Ad.sk. [Madras*.] India Museum. 



b,c. (S;d,e. $ ad.sk. [Madras ( TTT/y/;/)*-] India Museum. 



f,g. cJ5juv.sk. [Madras (Tr7(/^^)*.j India Museum. 



h,i. (S 2 ad.sk. Neilgherries. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. (Types 



of Turdus simillimus (Jeid.) 



k. c? ad. sk. Neilgherries. M. Delessert [E.]. 



I. Ad. sk. Neilgherries. (Partial India Museum. 



albino.) 



m. Ad. St. [S. India.] J. Gould, Esq. 



20. Merula bourdilloni. (Plate XY.) 



Merula kinnisi (Blyth), apud Hume, Stray Feath. vii. p. 35 (1878). 



In the adult male the head is black, rest of the upper parts dull 

 black, showing only obscure traces of very dark slate-grey margins 

 to the feathers, which are slightly more conspicuous on the wing- 

 coverts; the underparts are very dark brown, with traces of dark 



* It is a pity that the exact localities of these specimens have not been pre- 

 served. They are doubtless from the Neilgherry hills, where alone, as yet, the 

 species has been met with. 



