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MERULA FEA, Salad. 
FEA'S OUZEL. 
Turdus obscurus (pt.), Blyth, B. Burm. p. 99 (1875). 
Turdus pallidus (nec Gm.), Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 253 (1878). 
Merula pallida (nec Gm.), Oates, B. Burm. i. p. 2 (1883). 
Merula fee, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) v. p. 514 (1887); id. t. c. p. 610 (1888); 
Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 135 (1890) ; Stuart Baker, Journ. Bomb. Soc. N. H. ix. 
p. 137 (1894); Rippon, Ibis, 1901, p. 544. 
Turdus subpallidus, Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 132 (1888). 
M. similis M. obscure, sed hypochondriis et pectore cinereis, pileo dorso concolore distinguenda. 
ALTHOUGH bearing considerable resemblance to M. obscura, with which it has been generally 
confounded, M. few is easily recognized by the grey sides of the body, the paler ashy-grey of 
the throat and chest in the adult male, and by the uniform russet-brown colour of the upper 
surface, the crown being like the back. The species has been compared by some writers to 
M. pallida, but the absence of white spots at the end of the tail-feathers discounts this affinity. 
The present species is probably not migratory, and will doubtless be found to be confined 
to the Indo-Burmese Provinces and Assam. Іп N. Cachar Mr. Stuart Baker states that he once 
noticed it, and Colonel Godwin-Austen met with a single example on the Hemeo Peak in the 
N. Cachar Hills. Examples procured by Mr. Cockburn at Shillong are in the Hume Collection. | 
Colonel Wardlaw Ramsay obtained a specimen in Karen-nee, Mr. Davison shot a female bird on 
Mt. Muleyit in Tenasserim, and Colonel Rippon procured an adult male at Loi Maw in the Southern 
Shan States in April. "The only specimen from Manipur in the Hume Collection is M. obscura, not 
JM. fee, and the same may be said of Colonel Godwin-Austen's birds from Cherra Poonjee and the 
Eastern Naga Hills. 
Adult male. General colour above russet-brown; wing-coverts like the back; quills sepia- 
brown, externally like the back, the primaries with a slight indication of a hoary-grey margin ; 
tail-feathers sepia-brown, externally edged with lighter brown like the back, the outer feathers 
fringed with whitish near the end of the inner web; crown of head slightly more russet than 
the back; the ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of the neck of the same colour as the head ; lores 
black, surmounted by a white superciliary line, slightly shaded with ashy; a spot below the eye 
and the fore part of the cheeks, as well as the base of the chin, whitish ; rest of throat, fore-neck, 
breast, and sides of body slaty-grey, with a slight wash of rusty-brown on the throat and fore-neck : 
abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the latter with ashy-brown edges to the feathers; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts ashy-grey, like the sides of the body; quills dusky below, ashy along the: 
inner webs: “ЫШ black, yellow at gape and on the base of the lower mandible; feet brownish! 
yellow; iris brown” (ТУ. Davison). Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 0:95, wing 5:1, tail 3:6, 
tarsus 1:9. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the throat whitish, streaked with russet-brown, a 
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