3. MEETTLA, 265 



between the fourth and fifth, bastard primary 0-7 to 0*5 inch. 

 Legs, feet, and claws brown. Length of wing 5-2 to 4'8 inches, 

 tail 3-7 to 3-35, culmen 0-9 to 0-83, tarsus 1-31 to 1-2. 



The female differs from the male in having the chestnut of the 

 throat and breast paler and obscured by dull margins to the feathers. 

 After the autumn moult the feathers of the underparts have broader 

 pale margins. Birds of the year have black fan-shaped terminal 

 spots to the feathers of the upper breast, and ochraceous tips to 

 some of the median wing-coverts. In other respects the male of 

 the year resembles the adult female. Young in first i^himage are 

 unknown. 



The Red-tailed Ouzel apparently breeds in Siberia somewhat 

 south of the Arctic Circle, and winters in China. A few remain to 

 breed at high elevations in the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal ; and 

 during the autumn migration a few stragglers, princijially immature 

 birds, find their way into Europe. 



a. S ad. sic. Ussiiii river, 48^ N. lat. Nov. 4, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1873 {Dr. Di/boivsh/). 

 b,c. Jad.sk. Ningpo, China, March 1872. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



d. $ad. sk. Ningpo, China, March 1872. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



(Alleged hybrid between M. naumannii and M. ftiscata.) 



39. Merula protomomelaena *. 



Turdus dissimilis, JSli/th, J. A. S. Bent/, xvi. p. 144 (1847, c? , nee $ ) ; 



Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 256. no. 3729 (18G9) ; Gochv.-Ausi. J. A. S. 



Ben}/, xli. pt. 2, p. 142 (1872) ; Seebohm, P. Z, S. 1879, p. 805, 



pi. Ixiv. 

 Geoeiclila dissimilis (Bli/th), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 163 



(1849, cJ , nee 2 ) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 268 (18o0) ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 136, pi. vi. ; Hume, N,-sts •$■ Eqys Ind. B. p. 231 (1873) ; Hume, 



Straji Feath. ix. p. 103 (1880). 

 Turduhis cardis ( Temm.), apud Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 521 (1862). 

 Turdns protomonielas, Cab. Journ. Orn. 1867, p, 286; Grai/, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 2o6. no. 3730 (1869). 

 Turdus livperythrus, Blyth. fide Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 256. no. 3729 



(1869).' 

 Geocichla tricolor, Hume, Ilns, 1871, p. 411. 



In the adult male in .^prinrt ■plumage the entire head, nape, and 

 throat are nearly black, shading into dark slate-grey on the rest of 

 the upper parts ; Avings and tail brown, the outside webs edged with 

 slate-grey ; breast, axillarios, under wing-coverts, and flanks bril- 

 liant orange-chestnut, shading into white on the centre of the 

 belly ; under tail-coverts white, with slate-grey sides. Bill yellow. 

 Wings with the tliird, fourth, and fiftli primaries nearly equal and 

 longest, second primary equal to or slightly longer than the sixth, 

 bastard primary 0-85 to 0-75 inch. Length of wing 4-75 to 4-5 

 inches, tail 3-45 to 2-95, culmen 0-96 to 0-S7, tarsus 1-24 to 1-2. 



♦ The objection to the use of Blyth's name is that he described the female, 

 or immature male, as the adult male, and considered the adult male of Merula 

 vnicolor to be its female, in consequence of which both species have been con- 

 founded together under Blyth's name. 



