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Himalayas and the mountains of Southeni Siberia. Its principal 

 breeding-quarters are doubtless somewhat south of the Arctic Circle, 

 in Siberia. It winters in Turkestan, India, and China ; and an 

 occasional straggler has wandered into Europe. 



a. 5 imm. sk. Ala Kul, Tm-kestan, May Dr. 0. Finsch [C.]. 



9, 1876. 



b. (S ad. sk. i Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of Tiirdm eri/f/irunis, Hodgs.) 



c, «?, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



f. S fid. sk. Nepal (5. S. Hodgson). India Museum. 



^, A. c? ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



h k. (S 2 ^^- sk. Assam {Griffith). India Museum. 



I. d ad. sk. Lake Baikal {Dr. Dt/- R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. [P.]. 



botcsky), May 18, 1871. 



m. d ad. sk. China. Pmrhased. 



44. Merula unicolor. 



Tui-dus unicolor, Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 577 (1833) ; Gould, 



P. Z. S. 1837, p. 136 ; Grn,/, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 2.55. no. 3699 (1869, Goidd), and p. 260. no. 3796 (1869, 



Tickdl). 

 Turdus modestus, BhjtJi, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 460 (1842, nee Eyton). 

 Petrocinela homocln-oa, Hudgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. M»s.) of 



B. of Ne))(d, Pdsseres, pi. 139. no. 586, imdi Hodgs. Grays Zool. 



Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Geocichla di.*similis, Blt/th, J. A. S. Beng. x\i. p. 144 (1847, 5 , nee 



cJ ) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mtis. E.I. Co. i. p. 191 (1854). 

 Geocichla uuicolor ( Tickell), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p 163 



(1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 268 (1850); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 519 



(1862) ; Hume lS- Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 192 (1873) ; Hume, 



Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. p. 230 (1873). 

 Merida unicolor {Tickell), Goidd, B. Asia, ii. pi. 65 (1858). 



In the adult male the general colour of the upper parts, including 

 the lores and ear-coverts, is an almost uniform ash-grey or dull 

 lavender ; no trace of eye-stripe ; wings and tail brown, the outside 

 webs margined with ash-grey. Chin pale grey ; throat, breast, and 

 flanks pale slate-grey, shading into white on "the belly ; under tail- 

 coverts white, some feathers with brown margins towards the base ; 

 axillaries ash-grey, more or less marked with deep rich bufi'; under 

 wing-coverts deep rich buff; inner margin of quills pale brown; 

 upper part of belly and uTidor tail-coverts occasionally showing 

 traces of buff markings. I5ill yeUow. "Wings with "the tliird, 

 fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second pri- 

 mary intermediate in length between the fifth and sixth, bastard 

 primary 0-9 to Ow inch. Legs, feet, and claws -pale brown. Length 

 of wing 4-9 to 4-25 inches, tail 3-45 to 2-d, culmen 0-95 to 0-81, 

 tarsus 1-28 to M6. 



The female differs from the male in having the general colour of 

 the upper parts olive-brown, shading into ash-grey on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts. The throat is much, and the breast slightly 

 paler than in the male ; all the feathers on the cheeks, and many of 



