2G4 TITRDID^. 



e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of Turdus naumannii, Temm. apud Hodgs.) 



f,(j. c?ad. sk. Ning-po,' China (Mar. 1872). R. Swiulioe, Esq. [C.]. 



h. S imm. sk. Niiigpo, China (Mar. 1872). R. 8winhoe, Esq. [C.J. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Ningpo, China (Mar. 1872). R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



k. 5 innn.sk. iSlugpo, China (Mar. 1872). R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



I. (S ad. sk. Hoochow, China, Eeb. 8, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1876. 



m. (5 ad. sk. Yokohama, Japan (P/yer). Purcliased. 



38. Merula naumanni. 



Turdns naumanni, Temm. Man. (VOrn. i. p. 170 (1820) ; Nanm. Vfiq. 

 Deufsc/il. ii. p. 288 (1822) ; BrcJmi, Vor/. Deuhchl. p. 391 (1831); 

 Temm. Man. iTOrn. iii. p. 96 (1835); Keys. u. Bias. Wirh. Eur. 

 pp. 1, 176 (1840) ; Werner, Atlas, Insectiv. pi. 18 (1842) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 219 (1847) ; Begl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 464 (1849) ; Cab. 

 Mus. Hein. i. p. 3(1850) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1862, p. 319, pi. x. ; Graij, 

 Cat. Mamm. lye. Nepal Coll. Hodqs. p. 41 (1863); Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1863, p. 277 ; Beql. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 410 (1867) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 253. no. 3674 (1869) ; Sivinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 366 ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 147 (1876) ; Dresser, B. 

 Eur. pt. Iviii. (1877) ; Prjev. Powletfs Orn. Misc. ii. p. 195 (1877) ; 

 David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 153 (1877). 



Turdns ruficollis. Pall., apud Glor/er, Hundb. Voff. Eur. p. 180 (1834), 

 apud Nordm. Demid. Voy. Puss, merid. iii. p. 126 (1840), apud 

 Middend. Peis. fiibir. Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 170 (1851), apud Newt. 

 List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 9 (1862), apud Padde, Peis. Sibir. Vo(/. 

 p. 240 (1863). 



Turdus dubius, Beehst., apiul Bp. Consp. i. p. 270 (1850), apud Jaub. 

 et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 213 {\QhQ,partini), apud Fritsch, 

 Toy. Eur. p. 137 (1870). 



Turdus fuscatus, Pall., apud Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 25 (1854), apud 

 Padde, Peis. Sibir. Voy. ii. p. 236 (1863, partini). 



Turdus abrekianus, Dyboicsky, Journ. Orn. 1876, p. 193. 



In the adult male in spring p7»»!ffr/e the general colour of the 

 upper parts is pale greyish brown, the upper tail-coverts, the rump, 

 and frequently the scapulars and occasionally many of the feathers 

 of the back being more or less chestnut ; lores brown ; ear-coverts 

 pale grey chestnut, tipped with black ; eye-stripe pale grey chest- 

 nut, somewhat obscure, but reaching to the nape ; wing-feathers 

 brown, with j^ale narrow margins ; wing-coverts greyish brown, 

 with pale grey or pale greyish- chestnut margins ; tail chestnut, the 

 terminal half of both webs of the two centre feathers and of the 

 outer web of the rest greyish brown. Chin and throat varying from 

 creamy white to chestnut, with a moustachial line of black spots on 

 each side, which almost disappear in very old birds (young birds 

 have frequently a few black spots on the throat, and more on the 

 breast) ; the centre of the bellj- is almost white ; but the remainder 

 of the underparts below the breast have the feathers chestnut with 

 broad white margins ; under wing-coverts and axillaries chestnut ; 

 inner margin of quills pale chestnut. Bill brown, pale at the base 

 "of the under mandible. Wing with the third and fourth primaries 

 nearly equal and longest, second primary intermediate in length 



