256 TrRDiD.^. 



in Central America, ^rhere it is a resident, subject only to very 

 restricted internal migrations. 



a. cJ ad. st. FG iiatemala.1 Purchased. 



h. 5 ad. sk. ^Guatemala.] Purchased. 



c. cj ad. sk. Guatemaha. Purchased. 



d, e. cJ ad. sk. Guatemala. Osbert Salvin, Esq. [C.J. 



27, Merula pritzbueri. 



Turdus pritzbueii, Larjard, Ann. Nat. Hist. i. p. 374 (1878) ; id. Ibis, 



1878, p. 254; Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 187, pi. v. 

 Merula pritzbuesi {Lai/ard), E. P. Ramsarj, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 



iii. p. 337 (1879j. 



In the adult male the entire head, neck, and breast are creamy 

 grej', clearl)' defined from the rest of the plumage, which is very 

 dark brown, scarcely distinguishable from black. Bill pale yellow. 

 "NYings with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest, second primary intermediate in length between the sixth 

 and seventh, bastard primary 0"S to O'Tinch. Legs, feet, and claws 

 pale yellow. Length of wing 4-26 to 4-05 inches, tail 2-96 to 

 2-85, culmen 0-9 to 0*S5, tarsus 1*3 to 1*25. 



The female difters from the male in having the head, neck, and 

 breast pale earthy brown, much darker than ia the male, and 

 shading into the dark brown of the rest of the plumage, which on 

 the ujiper parts is not quite as black as that of the male, and the 

 feathers of the underparts have chestnut-brown margins. Young hi 

 first plitmage are barred and spotted with rufous *. 



The Lifu Ouzel is found in the island of Lifu, one of the Loyalty 

 Islands, and probably in some of the adjacent islands. 



a,b. (^ $ ad. sk. Lifu, Loyalty Islands, E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



Aug. 28, 1878. 

 c. 2 ^^- sk- ■Po^'*' Resolution, Tanna, Eyton Collection. 



New Hebrides, Aug. 22, 



1859 (J.Macgillii'ray). 



28. Merula bicolor. 



Merula bicolor, Layard, Ibis, 1876, pp. 153, 392. 



Merula ruficeps, JE. P. Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i. p. 43 



(1876j. 

 Tm-dus bicolor (Layard), Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 189. 



In the adult male the entire head, neck, and upper breast are a 

 deep rich buff, almost au orauge-butf, well defined from the rest of 

 the plumage, which is a uniform dull black above and below, 

 including the under tail-coverts, but slightly paler on the axillaries. 

 Bill yellow. "Wings with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 nearly equal and longest, second primary about equal to the sixth, 



* Since writing the above I have received some skins, collected by Mr. Layard 

 on Lifu, which have the liead and neck nearly white, and have pale shafts and 

 tips to the under tail-coverts, and are certainly not specifically separable (pos- 

 sibly not even subspecifically so) from M. albifrons. 



