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yellow tinge. The bill entirely blacky without the pale base 

 of G. citrina. 



In the depth of the orange-colour on the head and sides of 

 face this species almost equals G, rubecula of Java, but is not 

 so intensely coloured on the body. It is more richly coloured 

 than the ordinary G. citrina, but has tlie abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white washed with yellow. 



[Bill black ; legs dirty pinkish white ; iris black. It was 

 only when I was on the point of leaving the mountain on 

 my second expedition that I fell in with this Thrush, which 

 I got at about 3000 feet elevation. The young were fully 

 fledged by the beginning of May.] 



81. Merula seebohmi. 



Merula seebohmi, Sharpe^, Ibis, 1888_, p. 386. 

 a. (S ad. Kina Balu, Jan. 31, 1888. 

 b,c. ^; d, e. ? ad. Kina Balu, Feb. 1888. 

 /. ? juv. Kina Balu, Feb. 18, 1888. 



The typical female had a few remains of buff centres to 

 the wing-coverts, and was described by me as " immature," 

 but it is practically adult. The fully adult female is scarcely 

 to be distinguished from the male and is only a trifle browner. 

 Wing 4 inches. More than one specimen has the abdomen 

 mottled with black feathers edged with buff" ; but these 

 markings are unaccompanied by other signs of nonage. 



The young bird has a dusky bill and is more dingy black 

 than the adults, with deep buff streaks down the back and on 

 the wing-coverts, taking the form of small spots at the end 

 of the greater series; sides of face and ear-coverts dusky 

 blackish, mottled on the cheeks with rufous ; a broad blackish 

 malar streak ; throat uniform rufous buff"; rest of under 

 surface deep rufous, whiter on the abdomen, the fore neck 

 mottled with black-spotted feathers, the sides of the neck 

 uniform black ; the black spots less distinct on the breast ; 

 under tail-coverts as in the adult female. 



[Iris black ; bill and feet and ring round the eye king's 

 yellow. This Blackbird was at once recognized by me as 

 new directly I saw it, for I had already met with M.javanica 



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