MERULA NIGRESCENS (Cab.). 
CABANIS'S OUZEL. 
Turdus nigrescens, Cab. J. f. O. 1860, р. 324; Salvin & Godman, Biol. Centr,-Amer., Aves, i. 
р. 25, tab. iv. (1879). 
Merula nigrescens, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 242 (1881). 
M. saturate chocolatino-brunnea, pileo vix nigricantiore: rostro et pedibus flavis: alis caudáque nigerrimis : 
subcaudalibus nigricantibus, minimé pallidé apicatis. 
This species is found in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. It was first discovered by 
Dr. Hoffmann on the Уојсап de Cartago in Costa Rica (Cab. J. f. О. 1860, p. 324), and here, 
Dr. von Frantzius tells us, it is met with at an elevation of from 9000 to 10,000 feet (J. f. O. 1869, 
p. 290). Messrs. Salvin and Godman remark :—“ This mountain seems to be the headquarters of 
the species in Costa Rica, as all collectors who have worked there have obtained specimens. It is, 
however, also found in the Dota Mountains, which lie at no great distance from Cartago " (Biol. 
Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 25). 
А specimen from San Francisco (4500 feet), obtained by Mr. Henry Rogers, is in the Salvin- 
Godman Collection, and Mr. Boucard met with the species on the Volcan de Irazu in May 1877. 
It was also obtained by Cooper on the last-named mountain. Mr. Nutting also procured a specimen 
on the summit of Irazu in February (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 494). 
The species likewise occurs in Panama, whence Arcé sent specimens from the southern slope 
of the Volcan de Chiriqui (Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 180). 
Adult male. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, the scapulars like the back ; quills 
and tail black, contrasting with the browner colour of the back; the lesser wing-coverts, and 
the inner major coverts and innermost secondaries, slightly washed with brown; head dark 
chocolate-brown like the back; lores and ear-coverts blacker; cheeks and under surface of body 
deep chocolate-brown ; the under tail-coverts black, edged with brown ; axillaries chocolate-brown, 
the under wing-coverts blacker; quills blackish-brown below: bill and feet yellow. Тоба! length 
9-7 inches, culmen 0:95, wing 5°7, tail 4*5, tarsus 1:4. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but of a slightly paler brown. Total length 9:5 inches, 
culmen 0:9, wing 5:45, tail 4:1, tarsus 1:3. 
The male described is in the Sclater Collection from the Volcan de Irazu (Zeledon), and the 
female is from the Volcan de Chiriqui in the Salvin-Godman Collection. 
'The figures in the Plate are drawn from a male bird in the Salvin-Godman Collection from the 
Volcan de Irazu (Cooper). ГВ. B. 8.1 
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