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2. Merula seebohmi. 
Merula seebohmi Sharpe, Ibis 1888, p. 386; id. 1889, p. 267. 
Similar to M. javanica, but general color black instead 
of olive-brown. 
Discovered on the Kina Balu, Borneo, at a height of 
8 —9000 feet. 
3. Merula celebensis, n. sp. 
Very closely allied to M. javanica, but more olive-green 
instead of brown on back, rump, upper tail-coverts, upper 
wing-coverts and scapulars, the chestnut color on the 
under surface richer and reaching higher, covering the 
whole breast, and the white subterminal spots on the sides 
of the rump much larger and more numerous. The color 
of the head seems to me to indicate a stage of nonage, 
being pale earthy brown and showing narrow pale shaft- 
streaks and fulvous subterminal spots. A single specimen 
collected by Teysmann at Macassar in 1877. 
4. Merula schlegeli. 
Turdus fumidus (partim) S. Müller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 2C1, 
Turdus schlegeli Sclat. Ibis 1861, p, 280; Wall. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 
485; Sclat. Ibis 1875, p. 347. 
Merula javanica (partim) Seebohm, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. V. p. 279. 
This species is easily distinguished from M. javanica 
by the paler color, especially of head, neck, throat and 
chest, by the vent and centre of abdomen being chestnut 
instead of white, and by the want of white shaft-streaks 
on the under tail-coverts. 
Adult male (type of the species): Mantle, back, rump 
and upper tail-coverts pale olive-brown, wing-coverts and 
outer edge of the secondaries like the back, quills and 
tail-feathers sepia-brown, entire head, hind neck, sides 
of neck, chin, throat, chest, upper breast and under 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
