AND M. FUMIDA. 229 



also chestnut and shows only faint lighter shafts on the 

 brown lower tail-coverts. 



Merula fumida (S. Mull.). 



Turdus {Merula) fumida S. Mull. Verhandl. Land- en volken- 

 kunde (1839-44) p. 201. Gedé (descr. in Note). 



T. hypopyrrhus Hartl. Verb. Brem. Samml. 1844, p. 43. 



T. fumidus (pt.) Finscb , J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 89 (descr. type 

 spec, from Gedé). 



T. javanicus Scl. (nee Horsf.), Ibis 1861, p. 280. — id. 1875, 

 p. 346, PI. VIII. 



» T. vulcanus Temm." Pelz. Novara Reise, Vogel, 1865, p. 70. 



Merula j'avanica (pt.) Seeb. (nee Horsf.) Cat. B. Br. M. V, 1881, 

 p. 279 (only descr. old male, spec, d; syn. part.). — ib. 

 Ibis 1893, p. 219 (not descr. in note), — Büttik. (nee Horsf.) 

 N. L. M. XV, 1893, p. 107 (descr. ad. et jun.). 



Dr. Sclater's description is taken from the type of 

 T. hypopyrrhus Hartl. in the Bremen Museum , as also 

 the excellent figure on PI. VIII, which will serve to 

 distinguish this species at once from M. javanica (Horsf.), 

 in having the head of the same dark olive-brown as 

 the remainder upper surface, in having the belly, inclusi- 

 vely the flanks, chestnut, a white anal patch and well 

 marked white shaftstripes on the lower tail-coverts. This 

 latter character differs a good deal, being the white shaft- 

 stripes in some specimens very narrow, but is shown al- 

 ready in the young bird, which is uniform dark olive 

 brown (also on the head), showing already on the middle 

 of lower breast and vent some chestnut feathers, but more 

 dull than in the old bird. 



The Type in the Leyden Museum was collected by Dr. 

 Salomon Muller in 1826 or 1827 on the Gedé (Western 

 Java) on an altitude of 8000 feet. Moreover we possess one 

 old and one young bird with no other indication than 

 » Java". In 1841 the Imperial Museum in Vienna received 

 from the Leyden Museum one specimen of this Mountain 

 Ouzel from the Gedé, s. n. » Turdus (fumatus) vulcanus 



Kotes from the LiCyden Museum, Vol. XX. 



