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Merula leucauchen (Sclater). 



Turdus leucauchen, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 212 (1881) ; Sharpe 

 in Seebohm's Mon. Turdidce, i. p. 223 (1898) ; Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 36 (1899). 



Merula leucauchen, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 123 (1903). 



The Collection contains three eggs of Sclater's White-throated 

 Ouzel, which are greenish grey, spotted and blotched with rich 

 chestnut-brown. Two have the markings fairly evenly distributed, 

 though certainly rather denser and larger at the broad end ; the 

 other has a thick handsome zone in the same position. The 

 respective measurements are 1-06 by -80 ; 1-10 by *81 ; and 1*12 by 

 •83. 



1. Guatemala. W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



2. Honduras, 3rd July. Crowley Bequest. 



Merula albicollis, Vieitt. 



Tardus albicollis, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 209 (1881); Sharpe 

 in Seebohm's Mon. Turdidce,i. p. 229 (1898) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 36 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paidista, iv. p. 198 (1900). 



Merula albicollis, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv p. 123 (1903). 



The eggs of Vieillot's White-throated Ouzel in the Collection are 

 of a regular oval form and moderately glossy. They are greyish, 

 tinged with pale blue or greeu, thickly sprinkled with fine spots 

 and occasionally streaked or blotched with chestnut-brown and 

 underlying lilac. They vary in size from 1*05 to 1-22 in length, 

 by from -82 to *87 in breadth. 



1. Brazil. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Brazil. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Rio de Janeiro. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Fry, Esq. [P.]. 



Merula gymnophthalmus, Cab. 

 (Plate V. figs. 13 & 16.) 



Turdus gymnophthalmus, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 212 (1881) ; 



Sharpe in Seebohm's Mon. Turdidce, i. p. 231 (1898) ; Nehrk. Eat. 



Eiersamml. p. 36 (1899). 

 Merula gymnophthalmus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 123 (1903). 



The five eggs of the Bare-eyed Ouzel in the Collection from the 

 island of Grenada, West Indies, are very variable in appearance, 

 though they are all pale green, spotted with various tints of brown. 

 Two of them are very thickly covered with dull brown blotches, in 

 one example forming a heavy cap at the smaller end, while the other 

 three are much less strongly marked, though the colour is decidedly 

 richer, and many underlying spots of bright lilac are visible. 

 In the latter, too, there is a conspicuous gathering of the spots 



