304 TURDIN^E. 



sides of the breast and flanks are nearly black, each feather' broadly fringed 

 with white ; belly white ; under tail coverts white, the basal half margined with 

 brown ; axillaries and under wing coverts white ; inner margin of quills pale 

 brown ; bill yellow in summer, brown in winter. 



Length. n inches; wing 5*3 to 5-9; tail 3*85 to 4*3; culmen 0*84 to 

 0*92; tarsus i '2 to 1-3, 



#<?, Same as the last, 



Gen. Merula. Leach. 



Bill slightly more lengthened generally than in Turdus, compressed at tip 

 and notched, Nostrils plumed at base ; rictal bristles short and strong ; feet 

 strong. Distributed in greater number in the neotropical than in the Austra- 

 lian, oriental, or palaearctic regions. 



37L Merula albocincta, (Royle) Biyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 148; 



Gould, B. Asia ii. pi. 76 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 536, No. 362 ; Godw -Austen, 

 J. A, S. B. xiv. pt. 2, p. 196, Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 285 ; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B, Br. Mus. v, p. 245. Turdus albocinctus, Royle, lllustr. Him. Bot. 

 p. Ixxvii. pi, viii. fig. 3. The WHITE-COLLARED OUZEL. 



Male, Dingy black, slightly glossed above ; neck with a nearly white 

 collar ; under surface a dark sooty brown ; vent feathers white-shafted ; bill 

 and orbits deep yellow ; legs dingy ; irides dark brown. 



Female. Has the white collar pale grey on the hind neck ; the upper parts 

 are dusky brown ; under parts brown, obscurely barred with grey. 



Length. II inches; wing 5 to 5-8; tail 4 to 4-55 ; culmen PIS; tarsus 

 J'4- 



Hal. The Himalayas, from Nepaul to Assam, breeding at high elevations, 

 and descending lower in the valleys during winter. It has been obtained in 

 Sikkim a.nd near Darjeeling, also in Bengal, Assam, Nepaul and Simla. 



372, Merula boulboul, (/;*/*.) Biytk, J. A. S. B. X vi. p. i 47; 



Gould, . Asia ii. pi. 77 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 525 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Jnd. B. p. 234 ; Seebohm, Cat, B. Br. Mus. v. p. 248. Lanius boulboul, 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 80, Turdus pcecilopterus, Vig. P. Z, S. 1831, p. 54.-* 

 The G^EY-WINQED OUZEL. 



Upper parts black j the tips of the median wing coverts, the outer webs of 

 the greater wing coverts and a broad margin to the innermost secondaries 

 greyish white ; under surface paler black ; the axillaries, under wing coverts, 

 belly, flanks and under tail coverts narrowly margined with greyish white, 

 or the axillaries and under wing coverts, sometimes one or both, greyish 

 white j bill yellow ; legs, feet and claws yellow ; orbits yellow. 



