MERULIDJl. 



back to pass the winter in Africa ; and the Zoological 

 Society have received specimens from Tunis, Egypt, 

 Smyrna, Trebizond, and Erzeroum. 



The adult male has the beak orange brown ; from the 

 base of the beak to the eye a dark coloured streak ; irides 

 lake red : the whole of the head, neck, and body, above 

 and below, with the upper and under tail-coverts, bright 

 gamboge yellow ; the wings black ; the ends of the fea- 

 thers of the spurious wing yellow ; the outer edge of the 

 primaries, and the tips of the secondaries and tertials, yel- 

 lowish white ; upper surface of the two middle tail-feathers 

 black, tipped with yellow ; the outer tail-feather on each 

 side has its basal half black, the remaining portion yellow : 

 in the tail-feathers on each side between the outside feather 

 and those in the centre, the black colour occupies a larger 

 space in each successively ; the tail in form is slightly 

 rounded : under wing-coverts yellow ; under surface of the 

 quill-feathers and the dark part of the tail-feathers, greyish 

 black ; legs and toes lead colour ; the claws, like the beak, 

 orange brown. 



The whole length of the bird is nine inches and a half. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the longest feather in 

 the wing, six inches and a quarter : the first wing-feather 

 not quite half as long as the second; the second not so 

 long as the fourth, but longer than the fifth'; the third 

 feather the longest in the wing. 



The female has not the dark streak between the beak 

 and the eye ; the upper surface of the plumage is oil -green ; 

 upper tail-coverts greenish yellow ; wing-coverts brocoli- 

 brown ; the quill -feathers blackish brown ; the ends of the 

 spurious wing-feathers tipped with white ; outer edges and 

 ends of the quill -feathers margined with dull white : upper 

 surface of tail-feathers brocoli-brown, tinged with yellow 

 at the base, streaked and tipped with brighter yellow ; 



