MERULA SUBOBSCURA, Salad. 
SALVADORIS OUZEL. 
Merula subobscura, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 148 (1889) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. 
Ind., Birds, ii. p. 135 (1890). 
M. similis M. obscure, sed major, fasciá superciliari minüs conspicuá, 
corporis lateribus pallidioribus : primariis 
aliter formatis. 
Tuis species, the type of which still remains as the single specimen known, was described by 
Count Salvadori in 1889. I have never seen the specimen, but it was lent by the Count to 
Mr. E. W. Oates when the latter gentleman was at work on the * Fauna of British India’ He 
states (2. с.) that the species is “similar to М. obscura, but is larger, with the superciliary band 
less conspicuous, the sides of the body paler ochraceous, and the proportions of the primaries 
are different.” 
The type of the species, an adult male, was procured by Signor Fea at Tahó, in the Karen 
Hills, to the north-east of Toungngoo, in March. Mr. Oates continues :—“ The measurements 
of this specimen are as follows :—Length 10 inches, tail 8:8, wing 9:25, tarsus 1:2, bill from 
gape 10. The third and fourth primaries are subequal and longest; the second shorter than 
the fifth and longer than the sixth. In JM. obscura the third primary is the longest, the fourth 
is rather shorter than the third, and the second is between the fourth and fifth. I have failed to 
find any example of this Thrush from Burma in the British Museum series," [В. B. | 
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