HANDBOOK 
TO THE 
BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Subclass AVES CARINAT^. 
Order PASSERES. 
Suborder O S C I N E S. 
Section OSCINES JDENTIROSTEES, 
Family TURDIDiE^. 
Subfamily TUEDIN^. 
Genus MEEULA, Leach. 
1. MERULA OBSCURA. 
THE DARK OUZEL. 
Turdus obscurus, G^n. Syst. Nat. i. p. 816 ; Wald. Trans. ZooL Soc. ix. p. 187 ; Bl. 
B. Burm. p. 99 ; Hume Dav. S. Feath. vi. p. 251 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, 
ii, p. 71, pi. 5 Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 153 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 94. Turdus 
pallens, Pall. Zooyr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 457 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 256. Turdus 
rufulus, Drap. Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. x. p. 443 ; Ball, S. F. i. p. 69. Turdus 
modestus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103. Merula obscura, Seehohm, Cat. 
Birds B. Mus. v. p. 273. 
Description. — Male. Upper plumage olive-brown^ tinged with slaty on 
the head, the primaries and the inner webs of the other quills dark brown ; 
a narrow supercilium^ white ; lores black ; chin and base of lower mandible 
white, as also a narrow short line produced down from the lower mandible ; 
throat, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the neck dusky slaty; breast and 
* I follow pretty closely the arrangement of families adopted by Mr. Salvin in his recent 
^ Catalogue of the Birds in the Strickland Collection.' 
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