266 TUKDIU^. 



The female differs from the male in having the upper parts a 

 nearly nniform olive-bro'wn ; throat nearlj- white in the centre, the 

 feathers of the sides of the throat and chest with dark brown fan- 

 shaped terminal spots ; rest of undei^iarts as in the male. Males 

 of the year resemble females, and generally have traces of pale tips 

 to many of the wing-coverts, Yovng in first plumage appear to be 

 unknown. 



Cabanis's Ouzel breeds in the eastern Himalayas, descending into 

 the valleys during the cold seasons. 



The British Museum does not possess an example of this species. 

 The type in the Berlin Museum is an adult male ; and skins of adult 

 males are in the collection of Capt. Elwes, in the Tweeddale col- 

 lection in the possession of Capt. Wardlaw-Ramsay, and in my own. 

 The skin of an adult female or male of the year is in the collection 

 of Col. Godwin-Austen. 



40. Merula euryzona. 



Morula eiuyzona, DitBus, Esquiss. Orn. pi. xxxiv. (1845). 



Tardus fulviventris, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 273 ; id. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 331 ; id. Ibis, 1861, pi. viii. ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 4 (18G2) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 257. no. 3753 (1869). 

 Turdus euryzonus (Dm Dus, Esqiiiss.), Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 2 



(1862) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, pp. 120, 320. 



In the adult male the head and lores are black ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; the rest of the upjier parts dark olive-brown ; no trace of 

 eye-stripe ; bastard wing, primary- coverts, and primaries dark 

 brown ; lesser, median, and greater wing-coverts, innermost secon- 

 daries, and outer webs of secondaries dark olive-brown ; tail dark 

 brown. Chin and upper throat black ; lower throat and upper 

 breast brown ; lower breast, flanks, and belly deep rich chestnut ; 

 thighs and imder tail-coverts olive-brown, obscurely margined with 

 pale chestnut ; axillaries deep rich chestnut ; under wing-coverts 

 chestnut and brown ; inner margin of quills scarcely paler than the 

 rest of the under surface. Bill yellow above and below. "Wing 

 with the fourth and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second 

 primary about equal to the ninth, bastard primaiy 1-4 to 1"05 inch. 

 Legs, feet, and claws dark brown. Length of wing 5-1 to 4-7 inches, 

 tail 4-1 to 3-6, ciilmen 1-1 to 1-0, tarsus 1-4 to 1-05. 



It is not known that there is any difference in the plumage of 

 the sexes ; the colours alter scarcely perceptibly by abrasion. Birds 

 in first autumn phanage frequently show traces of chestnut terminal 

 spots on the wing-coverts. I have not seen the immature bird in 

 its spotted and barred plumage. 



Sclatcr's Red-bellied Ouzel is confined to the highlands of Co- 

 lombia and Ecuador, where it is probably subject to some internal 

 migration. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



