ABBENDA. 405 



Page 238. Add, as an additional species : — 



Irt. Merula maxima. 



Merula viilfraris ?, Jtrdon, Ihis, ]872, p. 137. 



!Merida vulgai'is, Selhi/ apud Scully, Stray Featli. 1876, p. 99. 



By the kindness of Captain Wardlaw Eamsay, I have had an 

 opportunity of examining the example of the Ouzel obtained bj' 

 Dr. Jerdon in Cashmere, and now' in the Tweeddale Collection. It 

 appears to me to belong to the large race of Merula merula which 

 Dr. Scully found at Yarkand, and which is probably entitled to at 

 least subspeciiic rank. The measurements of this example are as 

 follows : — Length of wing 5-85 inches, tail 4-9, culmen 0-95, tarsus 

 I'o. Wing with the fourth and fifth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest, second primary intermediate in length between the sixth 

 and seventh, bastard primary 1-0 inch. Bill, legs, feet, and claws 

 dark brown. The plumage is intermediate between young in first 

 plumage and male of the year, and probably, had the first moult 

 been completed, would not have differed in colour from the European 

 species. 



The Eastern Blackbird is only known from the three examples 

 alluded to, obtained in Eastern Turkestan and Cashmere, where it 

 apparently breeds at great elevations [Cashmere, July, 12,000 feet], 

 and winters in the valleys. In both localities it is said not to be 

 uncommon ; and it is probable that in a large series small examples 

 might be found which would be undistinguishable from the largest 

 examples of the European race, in which case the difference between 

 the two forms would only be subspecific. 



^j^ . Page 248. Merula aurantia. 



d, e. Ad. sk, Jamaica. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Jamaica. Purchased. 



Add:— 



Page 2G9. Merula atrigfularis. 



m'. $ ad. sk. Gilgit, Cashmere, Feb. 5, 1880. Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



Add:— 



Page 282. MimocicMa bryauti. 



a. Ad. sk, [Bahamas.] Purchased. 



Add :— 



Page 282. Mimocichla ardesiaca. 



b. Ad. sk. St. Domingo. M. A. Salle [C.]. 



Add:— 



Page 285. Catharus fuscater. 



d. Ad. sk. Pallatanga, Ecuador. L. Eraser, Esq. [C.]. 



