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specimen іп question was presented to the Leyden Museum by Dr. Vorderman, who procured it at 
an elevation of over 5000 feet. I should agree with Dr. Finsch that this bird is the true 
M. javanica (Horsf.), but that he describes it as having a considerable patch of chestnut on the belly, 
and the drawing which he has sent me shows a larger extent of chestnut than can be seen on the 
two Horsfieldian examples. It may, however, be possible that the latter, being very ill-preserved, 
have faded to such an extent that the chestnut colour, after nearly ninety years, has become buff. 
Only the receipt of a carefully collected series of Thrushes from the different mountains of Java 
can settle this question; and at present 1 am inclined to believe that the young bird, the type of 
Turdus javanicus of Horsfield, may possibly be the young of Merula fumida (S. Múll.), and that the | 
two old birds represent a distinct and plain-coloured species of the same group as M. vitiensis. | 
Тһе bird described by Пт. Finsch from Cheribon may probably turn out to be a distinct species of p 
the M. fumida group. 
It is strange that no specimens actually agreeing with the adult birds procured by Horsfield in 
the early part of the last century have since been discovered. It may be added that the name 
of Turdus concolor of 'Temminck, published by Blyth, does not appear in any of the records of the | ir 
Leyden Museum (cf. Finsch, 4. c.). E" 
Adult. Above smoky brown, the wings and tail slightly darker, the head and neck all round [їп 
scarcely paler than the rest of the body; under surface of body somewhat paler brown, the under | 
tail-coverts blackish, with a narrow white shaft-line ; lower abdomen slightly tinged with ochre, but TI 
not chestnut. Total length 8:5 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 4:9, tail 3:6, tarsus 1:95. | i 
Another specimen is similar in colour, but is slightly more ochreous on the lower breast and | 
abdomen, and is followed by a white spot; under tail-coverts as before. It should be noted that 
there is no trace of a white spot on the adult bird described above, which has also scarcely any 
ochreous tinge on the abdomen, but the absence of these characters may be due to the loss of 
feathers. 
The supposed young bird, the type of M. javanica (Horsf.), has a broad streak of ochreous buff 
down the centre of the throat, and a moustachial streak of the same colour on each side ; the breast E 
and abdomen are more rufescent, but scarcely to be called chestuut. | 
The figures in the Plate are taken from Horsfield's examples in the British Museum, and the | ! чи 
descriptions are from the same birds. ГЕ. В. Б | | š 21] 
