188 MERULID.E. 



ccnding oblique bar; tlie wiiig-fcatlicrs pale brown on the 

 outer web, brownish black on the inner web, with dark brown 

 ends, the shafts black ; the four central tail-feathers uniform 

 pale brown ; the others darker in the webs, but lighter at 

 the ends, and of these the outer tail-feathers are the lightest. 

 The chin and throat is white ; from the lower edge of the 

 under mandible descends a narrow dark streak ; the neck, 

 breast, and all the under surface, white, tinged on the breast 

 and flanks with yellow brown, all the feathers having a 

 black semilunar tip ; before the wing, on each side, the 

 brown colour of the back extends a little forward toward 

 the breast ; anterior under wing-coverts white at the base, 

 and black at the tip ; under tail-coverts white ; under sur- 

 face of the tail-feathers greyish brown, the shafts white ; legs 

 and toes pale brown, the claws rather lighter. 



This bird having been killed in Hampshire, was named 

 after White of Selbornc by my friend T. C. Eyton, Esq. 





