MERULA SUBALARIS, Leer. 
BEHN'S OUZEL. 
Merula subalaris, Leverkühn, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 557. 
M. similis М. nigricipiti, sed subalaribus et axillaribus albis distinguenda. 
To the * Proceedings' of the Zoological Society for 1887 Seebohm communicated a description of 
this species by Dr. Leverkühn, who characterized it as nearly allied to M. nigriceps, but distinguished 
by its whiter throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, and especially by its white under wing-coverts 
and ахШагіеѕ In M. nigriceps the under wing-coverts are slaty-grey and the crown is black, whereas 
in M. subalaris the crown is scarcely darker than the back. 
The typical specimen is in the Museum at Kiel, and Dr. Leverkühn, who was in 1887 engaged 
in naming the birds there, sent it to Seebohm for determination. Professor Cabanis (J. f. O. 1888, 
p. 113) states that he had also seen the example in question, but had left it to Prof. Behn to describe. 
He speaks of the locality where it was obtained as * Peru." 
Dr. Behn was the naturalist attached to the expedition of the Danish Corvette * Galathea,’ an 
account of which was published, according to Seebohm, in a book bearing the title, * Beretning om 
Corvetten Galathea's Reise omkring Jorden' (Copenhagen, 1849-51). Dr. Behn's specimens 
collected during the voyage seem to have remained in the Kiel Museum for forty years without being 
described. 
Seebohm (/. с.) gives the following note on the discovery of the species :—“ In the months of 
July and August 1847, Dr. Behn appears to have travelled in the valley of the Paraná in South 
America, for on the 10th of August he shot ап example of Turdus albiventris at Jaragua, having 
previously obtained an example of the same species on the llth of July in the valley of the Rio 
Grande in the Province of São Paulo. Two days earlier (on the 9th of July) he appears to have 
been at a place called Jutuba, which is presumably in the same valley of Southern Brazil. Here 
he obtained a Thrush which appears to belong to an undescribed species." | 
The figure has been drawn from the typical example lent to Seebohm by Dr. Paul Leverkühn 
from the Kiel Museum. [R. B. S.] 
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