3. MORULA. 257 



bastard primary 0*8 to 0'6 inch. Legs, feet, and claws j-ellow. 

 Length of wing 4-05 inches, tail 2-7, culmen 0-83, tarsus 1-28. 



The ft'iuale only differs from the male in having the buff of the 

 head and neck not sharply defined, but shading into the black on 

 the nape and upper breast. Birds of the year and young in first 

 jilunuuje appear to be unknown. 



The Kaudavu Ouzel is confined to the island of that name, one of 

 the Fiji Islands. 



The British Museum does not possess an example of this hand- 

 some bird. I have taken mj- description from Layard's type, which 

 he kindly lent me for that purpose, and from the specimens in the 

 Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg. There is also an example in 

 Count Turati's collectiou in Turin. 



29. Merula tempesti. 



Tui'dus tempesti, Lai/anl, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 420 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 189. 

 Merula tempestii {Layard), Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 392; U. P. 



Humsay, P. L. Soc. K. S. JVaks, iii. p. 337 (1879). 



This species is scarcely distinguishable from J/, poliocephala. 

 The fully adult male, however, will be found to differ from that 

 species, if carefully examined, in the following particulars : — The 

 pale brownish grey of the chin, throat, and upper breast does not 

 shade gradually into the dark colour of the rest of the underparts, 

 but is abruptly separated from it ; and the rest of the underparts 

 (except the axillaries and under wing-coverts, which are pale 

 brownish grey in both species) are uniform dull black, without any 

 brown edges to the feathers, and without the pale shaft-lines and 

 tips of the under tail-coverts ; both the culmen and tarsus are also 

 slightly longer. Bill yeUow. Wing with the third, fourth, and fifth 

 primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary about e(|ual to 

 the sixth, bastard primary 09 to 0"85 inch. Legs, feet, and claws 

 yellow. Length of wing 4'25 to 3*9 inches, tail 2-8, culmen 0-94 to 

 0-92, tarsus 1-41 to 1-32. 



The female has the head very dark brown, scarcely paler than the 

 back. The 'chin, upper throat, and ear-coverts are pale brownish 

 grey, shading into dark brown on the lower throat, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts, the rest of the imdcrparts, including the under 

 tail-coverts, being very dark brown, nearly black. Birds of the year 

 appear to be unknown ; but young in first plumage have pale shaft- 

 lines to the featliers of the head and back, and the feathers of the 

 underparts have brown margins. 



The Taviuni Ouzel is confined to the island of that name, one of 

 the Fiji Islands. 



a. 2 ^^- ^^* Taviuni, Fiji Islands F. Godman & 0. Salvin, 



(Liardet). Esqrs. [P.]. 



b*. S ad. sk. [Taviuni.] Julius Brencliley, Esq. [P.]. 



* This skin is marked .13 being from Norfolk Island ; but Mr. Brencliley's 

 original label is no longer on the bird, and I think it quite possible that the 

 ticket had been transposed. 



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