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MERULA REEVEI (Lavr.). 
PUNA-ISLAND OUZEL. 
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Turdus reevii, Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 234 (1870). 
Merula reevii, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 254 (1881). 
Cossyphopsis reevii, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 478 (1882). 
М. rostro et pedibus flavis: suprà schistacea : gutture albo, nigro striato: subtüs brunnescenti-grisea : subalaribus 
brunnescenti-griseis vel aurantiaco-fulvis (juv.). 
Or this species I have at present examined but a single specimen in the Salvin-Godman Collection, 
and this is unfortunately not mature. Тһе type specimen from Puna Island, in the Gulf of Guayaquil, 
is in the U.S. National Museum, and has been described by Mr. Seebohm in the * Catalogue of 
Birds.’ А specimen from Lechugal, in Peru, is in Dr. Raimondi's Collection (Tacz. Orn. Pérou, 
i. р. 490). These examples are, I believe, the only ones at present known in museums. 
Dr. Stejneger considers that this species should be generically separated from the species of 
Merula, on account of the shortness of the genys and the emarginate shape of the tail. This last 
feature is not shown in the specimen in the Salvin-Godman Collection, but, as the latter is not mature, 
too much reliance need not be placed on the fact. The coloration and form of M. reevei are 
certainly peculiar but I am unable to judge of its generic distinction without examining adult 
specimens. 
The following is the description of the type drawn up by Mr. Seebohm (1. c.) :—The general 
colour of the upper parts is slate-grey, shading into dark slate on the head; lores brown; ear-coverts 
dark slate-grey ; no trace of eye-stripe; wings brown, the wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, and 
unemarginated portions of the outer webs of quills slate-grey ; tail brown, the central feathers and 
outside webs of the other tail-feathers slate-grey. Chin and upper throat nearly white, streaked with 
nearly black; rest of underparts pale brownish-grey, shading into nearly white on the centre of the 
belly; under tail-coverts nearly white; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale brownish-grey ; inner 
margin of quills pale slate-grey. Bill bright yellow. Wing with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries 
nearly equal and longest, second primary intermediate in length between the seventh and eighth, 
bastard-primary 11 to 0:95 inch. Legs, feet, and claws pale yellow. Length of wing 4:68 to 
4:45 inches, tail 3:93 to 3:55, culmen 0:9, tarsus 1:25 to 1:21. Uem 
Judging from the specimen from Puna Island, in the Salvin-Godman Collection, the young bird 
is dark olive-brown, streaked with buff down the centre of the feathers, which have also triangular 
spots at the tips of the wing-coverts and inner secondaries. The under surface of the body is 
brownish-buff, mottled with blackish bars at the ends of the feathers. 
axillaries are orange-buff. Bill brown, yellow towards the tip. 
wing 4:6, tail 8:3, tarsus 1:25. 
The under wing-coverts and 
Total length 8 inches, culmen 0:91, 
The figure of the adult in the Plate 18, І believe, drawn from the typical specimen in the 
U.S. National Museum, having been lent to Mr. Seebohm. The right-hand figure represents the 
young bird in the Salvin-Godman Collection, and is the one which 1 have alluded to above, 
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