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MERULA FUMIDA (8. Иш). 
MÜLLER’S CHESTNUT-BREASTED OUZEL. 
Turdus (Merula) fumidus, S. Müll. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederl. Ind., Land- en Volkenk. p. 201 
(1839-44). 
Turdus hypopyrrhus, Hartl. Verz. Brem. Samml. 1844, p. 43; Gray, Gen. В. 1. р. 219 (1847); 
Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. 1. p. 3 (1850); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 258 (1874). 
Turdus fumidus, unm Gen. B. i. p. 219 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 274 (1850); Finsch, J. f. O. 
1863, p. 39. 
Turdus javanicus, pt. (nec Horsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 143 (1847); Sclater, Ibis, 1861, 
p. 280; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 255. no. 3705 (1869). 
Turdus vulcanus, Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vógel, p. 70 (1865, ex Temm. MSS.). 
Turdus javanicus (nec Horsf.), Salvad. Осе. Born. р. 255. по. 3705 (1874); Sclater, Ibis, 1875, 
p. 944, pl. vii. 
Merula javanica, pt. (nec Horsf.), Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 279 (1881); id. Ibis, 1893, 
р. 219; Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 538 (1896). 
Merula f'umida, Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. xx. p. 229 (1898). 
M. rostro flavo: pedibus flavis: појео fumoso-brunneo, pileo concolore vix saturatiore: facie laterali, gutture et 
prepectore quoque fumoso-brunneis: pectore et abdomine castaneis: plagá crissali albá : subcaudalibus 
fumoso-brunneis, latè albo medialiter striatis. 
Tuts species of Chestnut-breasted Ouzel has been, in a most unaccountable way, confounded with 
Merula javanica, notwithstanding that the types of the latter have been in the British Museum and 
have been examined by many ornithologists. 
It seems to be entirely confined to West Java, and I believe that its reputed occurrence in 
Sumatra and Borneo, as recorded by Bonaparte, is in both instances erroneous. Іп the British 
Museum is a specimen of M. hypopyrrha, purchased of Verreaux, and said to be from Borneo, which 
is undoubtedly of Javan preparation, and is identical with a specimen from Java in the Tweeddale 
Collection. The place of М. fumida is taken in Borneo by M. seebohmi, both being inhabitants of 
very high mountains. 
According to Dr. Finsch, the type of M. fumida was procured by Dr. Solomon Müller on 
Mount Gedé, in Western Java, in 1826 or 1827, at an altitude of 8000 feet. Тһе Tring Museum, 
so Mr. Hartert informs me, has received four specimens from Mr. Prittwitz, obtained on the same 
mountain at the same elevation. Dr. A. R. Wallace also met with the species at 9500 feet in West 
Java, “ on the very summit of Mount Pangerango," a volcanic cone 10,000 feet high. Here also an 
example was procured by Zelebor during the voyage of the ‘Novara.’ It also occurs in East J ava, 
as Mr. Doherty has obtained specimens on Mount Arjano at 8000 and 8300 feet. This mountain 
is an enormous old volcano in the eastern part of Java, south of Surabaya (cf. Hartert, 1. c.). 
Mr. Hartert informs me that the Arjano birds are of the same species as those from Gedé and are not 
M. whiteheadi. 
