MERULA MELANOPLEURA. 
TRINIDAD GREY OUZEL. 
Turdus flavipes (nec Vieill.), E. С. Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 80; Léot. Ois. Trinid. p. 199 (1866); 
Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. vi. p. 22 (1894). 
Merula carbonaria (nec Licht.), Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 253 (1881). 
d similis М. flavipedi, sed gastrei nigredine magis extensá: abdomine nigro: subcaudalibus et hypochondriis 
schistaceis, nigro adumbratis: interscapulio quoque nigro lavato. 
IN the British Museum is a skin of a male Grey Ouzel said to be from Trinidad, and formerly in the 
Seebohm Collection. The locality is probably correct. Léotaud says that the species is only a 
migrant in Trinidad, and therefore it must be an accidental variety only. 
Adult male. Similar to M. flavipes, but differing in having the black of the head and hind-neck 
overspreading the mantle, and, on the under surface, extending over the entire abdomen, so as to 
leave the flanks dark slaty-grey, intermixed with black, and the under tail-coverts slaty-grey with 
black tips; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, the latter with slaty-grey bases: “ ЫШ, feet, and 
eyelid bright yellow; iris brown” (Léotaud). Total length 8:0 inches, culmen 0:75, wing 4:5, tail 3-1, 
tarsus 1:0. 
The male described and figured is іп the Seebohm Collection. Тһе author also identified a 
female as belonging to this species, but I am not sufficiently convinced of the correctness of this 
determination to venture to describe it. [R. B. S.] 
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