PP Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vov. VIII, 
Mountains of East Java. 
Distinguished by its white head and restricted chestnut 
on the belly. 
It is somewhat doubtful if this species will prove to be 
really distinct from T. javanica. As the present series shows, 
there is a distinct tendency for the feathers of the head of 
these birds to bleach under the effects of abrasion against the 
stiff coriaceous leaves of the Vaccinium amongst which they 
feed. 
Turdus (Merula) schlegeli, Sckater, Ibis, 1861, p. 280. 
Mountains of Timor. 
Paler above, 0 white on the middle of the belly or vent or 
on the shafts of the under tail coverts. 
Turdus (Merula) fumidus, supra. 
Mountains of West Java. 
Chestnut of belly in most cases spreading to the flanks 
though in some specimens these are partially sooty brown, 
like the upper breast. Head in freshly moulted specimens 
darker than the rest of the upper plumage which is greyish 
black, with an olivaceous pale mesial line on the abdomen and 
a whitish anal patch. Under tail coverts always with narrow 
white shaft lines and small white tip; though in very old 
specimens these are much reduced. 
The present series of twenty-four fully adult birds is 
probably far larger than any of the allied species obtained 
from any one locality and the degree of variability shown, 
which however is in the main due to the stage of wear of the 
plumage, throws a certain amount of doubt on the validity of 
the species described from various peaks of the Sondaic Chain 
from Sumatra to Timor. The forms in any event have no 
claim to rank as more than subspecies, though the absolute 
isolation involved by residence on a volcanic peak above 
10,000 feet might be expected to induce a certain amount of 
variation. 
Korinchi Peak is very steep, and the area above 10,000 
feet covered by vegetation which would support life must be 
very limited and can certainly not exceed a very few square 
miles, so that the distribution of this bird is extraordinarily 
limited. 
138. Henicurus velatus, Temm. 
Hemcurus velatus, Temm.; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
xiv, p. 234 (1879); Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 250; Snelleman in 
Veth’s Midden-Sumatra Exped. Vogels, iv, p. 40 (1884); 
Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 69 (1887); Vorderman, 
Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 410, no. 372 (1889). 
Hydroctchla velatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vii, 
p- 320 (1883); Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. liv, p. 684 
(1902). 
Expedition to Korinchi: 
