MERULA HORTULORUM (Selater). 
SWINHOE'S OUZEL. 
Turdus sp., Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, » 87 
Turdus hortulorum, Sclater, Ibis, 1863, р. 196; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p, 967; David & Oust. 
Ois. Chine, p. 151 (1877); Seebohm, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 805; Stejneger, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 
p. 495 (1891). 
Turdus pelios (nec Bp.), Cab. J. f. O. 1870, p. 238; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 149 
(1876); David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 151 (1877); Tacz. Faune Orn. Sibér. Orient. i. p. 311 
(1891). 
Turdus campbelli, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. p. 374 (1873). 
Turdus chrysopleurus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, р. 444, pl. xiv. . 
Turdus dissimilis (nec Blyth), Seebohm, Str. F. viii. p. 437 (1879, pt.). 
Merula hortulorum, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 267 (1881);.La Touche, Ibis, 1887, 
p. 216, 1892, p. 412; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 332, 1894, p. 335. 
М. rostro et pedibus flavis; axillaribus et subalaribus pallidé aurantiacis, corporis lateribus concoloribus : pileo 
grisescenti- vel olivaceo-brunneo, minime nigro: gutture albo vel fulvescente, nigro striato: prepectore 
pallidé cineraceo concolore ($) vel fusco-nigro striato ( 9): pectore toto et abdomine purè albis. 
Tuis pretty Ouzel was for a long time considered to be the true Turdus pelios of Bonaparte, 
but there can be no doubt that the description of the latter species indicates the African 
Thrush which is now universally recognized by that name. Іп Dr. Taczanowski's *Faune 
Ornithologique de la Sibérie Orientale a note by Mr. Godlewski informs us that Merula hortulorum 
is very rare in the Ussuri country and on the coast of the Sea of Japan, where it arrives in 
the first half of May and settles itself in the forests. It is very wary and difficult to obtain. The 
note of the male surpasses that of all the other Thrushes of Eastern Siberia ; it is an indefatigable 
songster and has a loud voice. It breeds in Ussuri-land, but Godlewski did not succeed in 
finding its nest. 
The species was also met with by Mr. Janskowski on the island of Askold, and more recently 
by Mr. Kalinowski at Sidemi. The Seebohm Collection contains a fine series from the mouth 
of the Amoor, procured by the brothers Doerries in April and May, as well as three specimens 
‘obtained by Dybowski іп Ussuri-land, one being from the Suiffun district. Although Mr. Seebohm 
had referred a specimen from the Perry expedition to Japan to this species (P. Z. S. 187 9, p. 805), 
Dr. Stejneger (Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 496, 1891) came to the conclusion that this specimen did 
not really come from Japan, He mentions, however, an authentic specimen from the province of 
“Кара, in Hondo, sent to him by Prof. Ijima, so that the species certainly occurs in the Archipelago. 
Although this species was only noticed for the first time in China by Swinhoe in 1861, an 
undescribed specimen had been for many years in the British Museum, to which it had been 
presented by that veteran naturalist Mr. John Reeves. Swinhoe met with it first at Macao, 
in the Camoens Gardens, where, he says, “it was nesting." This was apparently a mistake, 
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