27-i TraDiD.E, 



•with the third primary longest, second primary between the fourth 

 and fifth, bastard primary OG to 0-5 inch. Legs, feet, and claws pale 

 brown. Length of wing 5-0 to 4-4 inches, tail 3-6 to 3*0, culmen 

 0-88 to 0-78, tarsus 1-2(3 to 1-1. 



The fimalc diflers from the male in not haTing the slaty tint on 

 the crown, nape, and sides of the head ; the throat is white, obscurely 

 streaked with brown, and the flanks are very slightly suffused with 

 pale chestnut-brown. In spring the general colour of the upper 

 parts has faded from russet-brown into a greyer brown, which be- 

 comes still more grey during summer. 



Birds of the ijear do not entirely lose the marks of immaturity 

 until their second autumn moult ; the wing-coverts and innermost 

 secondaries frequently retain the pale tips, though these are white 

 rather than ochraceous ; the thi'oat and eye-stripe of the female are 

 much suffused with ochraceous, and the throat of the male resembles 

 that of the adult female. 



Young in Jirst j^luniage hare most of the feathers of the upper 

 parts with pale ochraceous shafts ; the feathers of the back have 

 traces of dark-brown teiminal bars, and the wing-coverts and inner- 

 most secondaries have pale ochraceous tips to the outside webs : on 

 the underparts the feathers of the cheeks and breast have dark- 

 brown tips, which become less conspicuous on the flanks ; the throat 

 and eye-stripe are suffused with ochraceous. 



The Dark Ouzel breeds in East Siberia, between lat. 63° and 67°, 

 in the valley of the Yenesay, and further east in the pine-region of 

 Lake Baical and the valley of the Amoor ; it })asses through China 

 and Mongolia on migration, and winters in Assam, Malacca, and the 

 islands of the Malay archipelago. Stragglers occasionally are found 

 as far west as Turkestan, Nepal, and Europe. 



a. $ ad.sk, Yenesav. lat. 06^°, June Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



27, 1877." ■ " . [P.i. 



h. Ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan. Capt. St. John [C.]. 



f. Imiu. sk. Xmoy (R. Su-inhoe). F.GodmanaudO. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 (1, e. c? 2 ad. sk, Labuan, Borneo. Huyrh Low, Esq. [C.l. 



f. (f. Imm. sk, Labuan, Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [O.J. 



//. Inini.sk. Labuan, Borneo. Governor Cssher [C."|. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Malacca. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



A-, /. cJad. : ?H.Imm. sk. Malacca {Canto)-). India Museum. 



n. Iium. sk. Malacca. "W. Harvey, Esq. [C.]. 



o. Imm. sk. Malacca. Eyton Coll. (Type of Tm*-- 



ih(s modestus, Eyton.) 

 J}. Imm. sk. Penang {Cantor). India Museum. 



i7.In1m.sk. Nepal. B. H.Hodgson,Esq. [P.ll 



r. Ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [P.j- 



47. Merula pallida. 



Pale Thrush, Lath. fun. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 32 (178-3). 



Turdus yallidus, Gmel. Sy'st. Nat. i. p. 816 (1788) (ex Lath.): Lath. 



Ind. Orn. i. p. ^34 (]7t'0) ; Gcidd, B. Eur. ii. pi. 80 (1837); Keys. 



u.Blas. Wirb.Eur. pp. 11,178 (1840); Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 218 



