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MERULA RORAIME. (Salvin & Godman). 
RORAIMA OUZEL. 
Turdus roraime, Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 443. 
М. gastreo cinnamomeo-fulvo: pileo nigro: gutture fuscescente, nigro latè striato : rostro et pedibus flavis. 
THIS species is somewhat allied to M. olivatra of Venezuela, but is nevertheless very distinct 
from that species. It is а much darker bird and shows a decided difference in the colour 
of the underparts, as may be seen by the figures and descriptions of the two species. In 
М. roraime the breast is much darker and of a more cinnamon-buff colour, lightening on the 
abdomen; the throat is not black and well-defined as in M. olivatra, but is dusky brown, and this 
colour gradually shades off on the fore-neck into the cinnamon-buff colour of the rest of the under ` 
surface of the body. 
The Roraima Ouzel is one of the many new species discovered by that excellent naturalist, 
the late Henry Whitely, in British Guiana, and the British Museum possesses a large series of 
specimens obtained by him in that country, in August and September 1883, when he met with 
the species on Mt. Roraima at an elevation of 5000-6000 feet. Dr. J. J. Quelch and Mr. F. V. 
McConnell also obtained it on Roraima, and a specimen procured by Whitely on the River 
Carimang, in December 1885, is in the Salvin-Godman Collection. It is probable, therefore, that 
the species nests in the higher parts of Roraima and descends to the lower elevations after the 
breeding-season. 
Adult male. General colour above dark olive-brown, a little more dingy on the mantle 
and back; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, externally 
edged with darker olive, the inner secondaries entirely dark olive, like the back; tail blackish ; 
crown of head and nape and sides of face black; entire throat and fore-neck dusky brown, shading 
off into dull cinnamon-buff on the breast, becoming a little lighter on the abdomen and vent; 
the throat obscured by large longitudinal spots of black; sides of body and thighs darker and more 
dusky olive; under tail-coverts dusky olive-brown, with pale cinnamon edges; under wing-coverts 
dusky olive-brown, with pale rufescent edges; quills below dusky, more ashy along the inner 
webs: bill yellow; feet yellow or yellowish-brown. Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 1:05, wing 4:9, 
tail 9:6, tarsus 1:3. 
Adult female. Lighter olive-brown than the male, the head dusky blackish, only a little darker 
than the back; throat and fore-neck dusky olive-brown, the upper throat obscured by blackish 
streaks ; centre of breast and abdomen ochraceous-buff, becoming paler towards the vent; sides of 
body dark ochraceous-brown ; under wing-coverts dusky, edged with ochraceous-buff: bill dark 
brown, horny yellowish towards the tip. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1:0, wing 4:75, tail 3:5, 
tarsus 1:25. 
Young. Dark olive-brown, with the head blackish; the feathers of the upper surface 
mesially streaked with shaft-lines of buff, and the wing-coverts with triangular rufous spots 
at the ends of the feathers; under surface of body ochraceous-rufous, mottled with black 
