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  Mr. 
  H. 
  Seebohm 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  by 
  Salomon 
  Miiller 
  some 
  time 
  between 
  the 
  years 
  1828 
  and 
  

   1836, 
  and 
  received 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Turdus 
  {Merula) 
  fumidus 
  

   (Miiller, 
  Verb. 
  Nat. 
  Gesch., 
  Land- 
  en 
  Volkenk. 
  p. 
  201), 
  the 
  

   types 
  o£ 
  which 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Leyden 
  Museum. 
  

  

  In 
  1844 
  a 
  third 
  name 
  was 
  bestowed 
  upon 
  Horsfield's 
  Ouzel, 
  

   viz. 
  Tardus 
  hypopyrrhus 
  (Hartlaub, 
  Syst. 
  Verz. 
  der 
  Mus. 
  

   Bremen, 
  p. 
  43), 
  the 
  previous 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  bird 
  having 
  

   been 
  either 
  unknown 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Hartlaub, 
  or 
  having 
  appeared 
  

   to 
  him 
  so 
  vague 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  unrecognizable. 
  The 
  type 
  of 
  this 
  

   description 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Bremen 
  Museum, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  excellent 
  

   figure 
  of 
  it 
  (Sclater, 
  Ibis, 
  1875, 
  p. 
  346, 
  pi. 
  viii.) 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  

   be 
  a 
  not 
  very 
  old 
  male 
  from 
  West 
  Java. 
  

  

  In 
  1861 
  Mr. 
  Wallace 
  obtained 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  Ouzel 
  

   (one 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum) 
  in 
  almost 
  the 
  same 
  

   locality. 
  In 
  his 
  ' 
  Malay 
  Archipelago 
  ' 
  he 
  describes 
  his 
  visit 
  

   to 
  the 
  extinct 
  volcano 
  of 
  Pangerango, 
  and 
  mentions 
  that 
  on 
  

   its 
  summit, 
  about 
  10,000 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  sea, 
  he 
  

   found 
  this 
  bird 
  feeding 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  among 
  the 
  strawberries 
  

   tiiat 
  have 
  been 
  planted 
  there. 
  

  

  There 
  does 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  any 
  foundation 
  for 
  the 
  state- 
  

   ment 
  made 
  in 
  1847 
  (Blyth, 
  J. 
  A. 
  S. 
  B.xvi. 
  p. 
  143) 
  that 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  Tardus 
  concolor 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  this 
  species 
  by 
  Tem- 
  

   rainck 
  ( 
  Biittikofer, 
  Notes 
  Leyd. 
  Mus. 
  xv. 
  p. 
  108). 
  The 
  

   statement 
  made 
  in 
  1854 
  (Bp. 
  C. 
  R. 
  xxxviii. 
  p. 
  6) 
  that 
  Dr. 
  

   Schitf 
  had 
  named 
  the 
  example 
  in 
  the 
  Senckenberg 
  Museum 
  in 
  

   Frankfort 
  Turdus 
  nigricrissus 
  is 
  also_, 
  as 
  I 
  am 
  informed 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  Hartert, 
  equally 
  unsupported 
  by 
  evidence. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  stated 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  Sumatra 
  and 
  

   Borneo 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Turdus 
  famidus 
  (Bp. 
  Consp. 
  i. 
  

   p. 
  274), 
  but 
  I 
  can 
  find 
  no 
  evidence 
  in 
  favour 
  of 
  the 
  correct- 
  

   ness 
  of 
  either 
  of 
  these 
  localities, 
  except 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  skin 
  

   in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  labelled 
  " 
  Borneo,^^ 
  purchased 
  from 
  

   Verreaux, 
  which, 
  however, 
  can 
  scarcely 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  proof 
  

   that 
  it 
  was 
  shot 
  there. 
  

  

  That 
  there 
  should 
  exist 
  a 
  second, 
  and 
  possibly 
  a 
  third^ 
  species 
  

   of 
  Merula 
  in 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Java 
  seems 
  at 
  first 
  sight 
  somewhat 
  

   improbable, 
  but 
  when 
  it 
  is 
  remembered 
  that 
  Merulajavanica 
  

   has 
  been 
  found 
  only 
  in 
  West 
  Java^ 
  and 
  then 
  at 
  elevations 
  of 
  

  

  