260 TUEDID^. 



breast, flanks, and belly deep rich chestniit, the centre of the belly- 

 more or less marked with dark brown and white ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts generally a deep rich chestnut, but occasion- 

 ally approaohing a dark brown ; inner margin of quills brown ; 

 under tail-coverts dark brown, with wliite tips and shafts. Tail 

 dark brown. Bill yellow. Wings with the third, fourth, and fifth 

 primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary intermediate 

 in length between the fifth and sixth, bastard primary 1"0 to 0-75 

 inch. Length of wing 5-6 to 5-1 inches, tail 4-4 to "3-i)5, culmen 

 l-l to 1-01, tarsus 1-4 to 1-24. Legs, feet, and claws yellow. 



The female differs from the male in having the whole of the upper 

 parts suffused with olive, and in having obscure streaks on the sides 

 of the throat ; and the chestnut of the underparts is much duller and 

 lighter. Males of the year resemble the female, but are if any 

 thing slightly darker, and retain the ochraceous tips of the young 

 in first plumage on the greater and median wing-coverts. Young 

 in first plumage appear to be undescribed. 



The Grey-headed Ouzel appears to be confined to the Himalayas 

 from Cashmere to Assam, breeding at high elevations, descending in 

 winter in flocks to the valleys. 



a. (S ad. sk. Cashmere. Purchased. 



b. (J ad. sk. Cashmere. E. M. Langworthy, Esq. 



[P.]. 



c. (1, e. S fid. sk. Nynee Tal. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 /. c? 'id. sk. Near Almorah. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



fP.J. 

 g. S ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. (Type of 



Turdus ruhrocanus, Hodgs.) 

 /*. 6 ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



i. 2 ad. ; k. c? ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



I. 5 ad. sk. Darjiling (Peai-son). India Museum. 



m. 5 ad. sk. [Assam {Griffith).'] India Museum. 



34. Merula gouldi. 



Merula gouldi, Verr. Nouv. Arch, du Mns. Hist. Nat. vi. Bull. p. 34 

 (1870) ; id. op. cit. vii. Bull. p. 32 (1871) ; id. op. cit. ix. Bull. 

 pi. V. fig. 2 (1873) ; Prjev. Botcley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 198 (1877) ; 

 David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 148, pi. xxxix. (1877). 



In the adult male in spring plumage the forehead, crown, lores, 

 and ear-coverts are dark sooty brown, shading into a slightly lighter 

 brown on the chin, throat, and neck ; Avings and tail dark brown ; 

 longest upper tail-coverts olive-brown ; under tail-coverts dark 

 brown, with white tips and shaft-lines ; thighs brown ; centre of 

 belly with more or less white and brown markings. The remain- 

 ing plumage, back, upper tail-coverts (except the longest), breast, 

 belly, flanks, axillaries, and under wing-coverts a uniform rich 

 chestnut ; inner margin of quills brown. Bill yellow. Wing with 

 the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primaryintermediate in length between the sixth and seventh, 

 bastard primary 1-0 inch. Legs, feet, and claws pale bro\\ n. Length 



