146 Notices and Descriptions of various New [Fkb. 



head ; under-parts light rufescent, deeper on the breast ; and wings 

 and tail as in the adult, but the feathers centred and margined with 

 rufous. 



G. innotata, nobis, n. s. Resembles G. citrina, but has the fer- 

 ruginous colour of the head and under-parts, and the ash-colour of its 

 upper-parts, much more intense ; no white upon the wings ; and the 

 lower tail-coverts only (not the vent) are white. From the Malayan 

 Peninsula. What I take to be two females of the same species, from 

 the Nicobar Islands, have the throat white, and some white at the 

 sides of the vent ; the wings, rump, and tail, only, are deep ashy, the 

 back and scapularies being olive-green, much as in the female of G. 

 citrina. These are also smaller than the Malayan bird, the wing being 

 but four inches, and the rest in proportion ; whereas the Malayan (sup- 

 posed) male has the wing four inches and a half. Should the Nicobar 

 bird prove distinct, it might stand as G. albogularis, nobis. 



G. rubecula, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 7. It is not very clear, from 

 Mr. Gould's description of this Javanese species, in what it differs from 

 G. citrina ; except that he states the tarse to be an inch and a half 

 long, instead of one and a quarter, and that the tail is but two inches 

 and a half, instead of three inches ; but from the difference of locality, 

 it will most likely prove to be distinct. Four well marked species of 

 this group are, as Mr. Gould informs us, in the Zoological Society's 

 Museum ; and T. rufovariegatus, Drapiez, Diet. Class, dHist. Nat. 

 X, 465, would seem to belong to it. 



Merula, Ray. 



15. M. Wardii, Jerdon, J. A. S. XI, 882; Jerdon's ///. Ind. Orn., 

 pi. VIII. The bird described and figured as above, is the male. The 

 female is very differently coloured, and a specimen was sent by Mr. 

 Hodgson by the name Oreocincla ? micropus. The Society has also 

 since received a female from Southern India, and a male from Almorah ; 

 so that all doubt is removed concerning the identity of the Himalayan 

 bird with that of Travancore, &c. The sexes of this species present the 

 usual diversity observable in most of the black Merles, (as the Bri- 

 tish M. vulgaris, &c), only somewhat further carried out ; and 

 this particular difference of the sexes confirms the propriety of its 

 allocation in Merula, which group, as I formerly remarked, it tends to 

 connect with Oreocincla. The male is black, with white eye-streak 



