386 Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on 



certain lights ; tail-feathers blackish, externally rufous brown, 

 the centre ones with dusky cross-bars under certain lights ; 

 crown of head like the back, but a little more dingy towards 

 the forehead j lores dusky, surmounted by a white streak 

 passing into an eyebrow of dull ashy grey ; feathers round 

 eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks reddish brown ; the 

 chin and sides of throat a little more dusky ; throat creamy 

 white ; sides of neck like the mantle ; fore neck and chest 

 ashy olive, slightly washed with ochreous brown ; breast light 

 ashy grey, paler towards the abdomen, which is white ; sides 

 of body, flanks, and thighs dull ashy, washed with ochreous 

 brown ; under tail-coverts pale fawn-buff; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries dull ashy, with whitish edges ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy fulvous along the inner edge : " bill black ; legs 

 whitish blue ; iris hazel" (/. W.). Total length 5*9 inches, 

 culmen 0*7, wing 3"4, tail 2*3, tarsus 0*95. 



Female (immature) . Like the male, but with tawny-rufous 

 tips to the greater wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts ; the 

 throat purer white, and the abdomen with a few dusky tips 

 to some of the white feathers. Total length 5 "8 inches, 

 culmen 0*7, wing 3, tail 2*2, tarsus 0*9. 



Nos. 2083, 2323. '' A brown Flycatcher, found from 3000 

 to 7000 feet. I have a nest and two eggs." 



The large size of this species, its ashy-grey flanks and 

 breast, distinct ashy eyebrow and rufous ear-coverts, all easily 

 distinguish it from its nearest ally, R. pedoralis. 



Fam. TuRDiD^. 

 6. Merula seebohmi, sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above, including the wings 

 and tail, black ; head, entire sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 throat, and chest black, the latter rather more sooty black; 

 abdomen, breast, and sides of body rich chestnut, the lower 

 abdomen white ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts black, 

 the latter with white centres to the feathers, tinged with 

 tawny buff; under wing-coverts and axillaries blackish, the 

 latter fringed with whitish at the ends ; quills below blackish, 



