7. ilONTICOLA. 319 



Intermediate forms in every stage, from entirely blue under- 

 parts -with only a few cliestnut feathers on the imder tail-coverts, 

 to nearly thorough-bred examjjles of the Eastern form, which show 

 only a few blue feathers on the chestnut belly, occur in South 

 China, Burma, and in Japan, the two siibspecies apparently inter- 

 breeding freely in some parts of North-east China. 



a. (S ad.sk. Ja]ia,n (Leyden Museum). F. Godmau and O. Salvia, 



Esqrs. 



b. J ad.sk. Amoy (L('i/c!vn 3Iuseuni). F. Goduian andO. Salvin, 



Esqrs. 

 c,il.(S ad.sk. Yovaiosii {R. Swinlwe). F. Godman and O. Salvia, 



Esqrs. 



c. cJ ad. sk. X. Formosa. G. E. Hobson, Esq. [P.]. 

 f. 2 imm. St. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. P.]. 

 V/. 6 ad. sk. Panaon, Oct. 1877. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 

 //. c? ad. sk. Labuan Island, February Governor Ussher [C.]. 



«. J ad. sk. Bintulu, N.W. Borneo, Alfred Everett, Esq. [P.]. 



Nov. 14, 1875. 



/.-. <5 ad. sk. Gilolo, 1858. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of Turdus enfthropterus, Gray.) 



/. (S id. sk. Tenasserim. J. CD. Packman, Esq.[P.]. 



»/i, n. ^ jid. sk. Tenasserim {Heifer). India Museum. 



o, p. (S ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Monticola soUtaria. 



Ee Solitaire de Manille, Briss. Oni. ii. p. 270, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2 (1760). 

 Le Solitaire de Philippines, Bnss. Orii. ii. p. 272, pi. xxviii. fig. 1 



(1760). 

 Le ]\Ierle solitaire de Manille, Month. Hid. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 363 (1776); 



Bdubent. PL Enl. no. 564. fig. 2 (1775) ; id. PI. Enl. no. 636 (1775, 



Le Merle solitaire de Philippines, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 364 



(1775) ; Daubeiit. PI. E)d. no. .339 (1775). 

 Turdus solitarius, P. L. S. Midi S. iA':, Anhang,p. 142(1776); G7-a?/, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 200. no. 3807 (1869). 

 Turdus pbilippensis, P. L. S. Midi. .S". N, Anhang, p. 145 (1776) ; 



Bodd. Tail. PL Enl. p. 21 (1783) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 220(1847); 



id. Hand-L B. i. p. 260. no. 3807 (1869). 

 Pensive Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 53 (1783). 

 Hei-mit Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 54 (1783). 

 Turdus mauilla, Bodd. TabL PL EnL p. 39 (1783). 

 Turdus mauillensis, GmeL Si/st. Nat i. p. 833 (1788); Lat/i. Lid. Orn. 



i. p. 345 (1700) ; VieilL N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 288 (1818) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847); Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Japan. 



^ms, p. 6(1847). 

 Turdus eremita, GmeL Sysf. Nat. i. p. 833 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. 346 (1790) : VieilL N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 288 (1818). 

 Petrocincla mauillensis ( GmeL), Bli/ffi, J. A. S. Bene/, xi. p. 460 



(1842) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. "151 (1847) ; id.' Cat. B. Mas. 



Ag. Soc. p. 164 (1849) ; Horsf. 4'- Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E.I. Co. i. 



p. 188 (1854); Cassin, Perry's Exp. to Japan, p. 240 (1856); 



Su-inhoe, Ibis, 1862, p. 307. 

 Petrocincla eremita {GmeL), Bp. Con.^. i. p. 297 (1850). 

 Petroco.«syphus mauillensis (GmeL), Bp. Comp. i. p. 297 (1850) ; 



Siciidioe, Ibis. 1860, p. 50. 

 Petrocincla violacea, Sirin/toe, Zoologist, 1858, p. 6228. 



