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abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white, the last basally mar- 

 gined with brown ; wings and tail brown, suffused with olive on 

 the outer webs ; axillaries and under wing-coverts slaty grey. 



Female. Eesembles the male in general coloration, but has the 

 crown always of the same colour as the upper plumage; the lores 

 and ear-coverts pale, the latter with whitish shafts ; the middle of 

 the chin and throat white with a few minute brown streaks. 



Iris olive-brown ; eyelids greenish ; upper mandible dark brown ; 

 lower mandible and gape yellow ; inside of mouth yellow ; legs 

 yellowish brown ; claws horn-colour. 



Length nearly 9; tail 3-5; wing 4*8; tarsus 1*2; bill from 

 gape 1*1. 



Distribution. A winter visitor, more or less abundant, to the 

 whole of Burma, the Andamans, Manipur, Shilloug, Sikhim, and 

 Nepal. An occasional straggler visits the plains of India, and in 

 the Hume Collection there is a specimen procured at Belgaum in 

 March. In the winter this species extends to China and to the 

 Malay peninsula and islands, and it summers in Siberia. 



681. Merula subobscura. Salvador? 's Ouzel. 



Morula subobscura, Salvadori, Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) i, p. 418 

 (1889). 



Coloration. Similar to Merula obscura but larger, with the white 

 superciliary band less conspicuous, the sides of the body paler 

 ochraceous, and the proportion of the primaries different. 



The type of this species, the only specimen known, was procured 

 by Mr. Fea at Tab 6 in the Karen hills, north-east of Toungngoo, 

 in March. It is an adult male. 



The measurements of this specimen are : length 10 ; tail 3*8 ; 

 wing 5-25 ; tarsus 1*2 ; bill from gape 1. 



The third and fourth primaries are subequal and longest ; the 

 second shorter than the fifth and longer than the sixth. In 

 M. obscura the third primary is the longest, the fourth is rather 

 shorter than the third, and the second is between the fourth and 

 fifth. 



I have examined the type of this species and I have failed to 

 find any example of this Thrush from Burma in the British Museum 

 scries. 



682. Merula feae. Fea's Ouzel. 



Turd us chrysolaus, Temm., apud Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, 



pt. ii, p. i02, xli, pt. ii, p. 143. 

 Turdulus pallens (Pad.), apud Godiv.-Aust. J. A. 8. B. xliii, pt. ii, 



p. 178. 

 Turdus pallidus, Gmel., apud Godw.-u4.tist. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, 



p. 196 ; Hume $ JDav. S. F. vi, p. 258 ; Hume, Cat. no. 369 ter ; 



id. S. F. xi, p. 130. 

 Merula pallida, Gmel., apud Oates, B. B. i, p. 2. 

 Merula fese, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 514 (1887), 



p. 610 (1888). 

 Turdus subpallidus, Hume, S. F. xi, p. 132 



