CATALOGUE. 
401 
Mountain Tlirush, of the Colonists of Van Diemen'a 
Land. 
A. Australia. From Mr. George Fradgley. 
Genus Turdus, Linn. (p. 196). 
656. TURDUS BUFULUS, Drapiez, 
Turdus rufulus, Drapiez, Diet. Class, d' Hist. Nat. X. 
p. 443. Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XVI. p. 143. 
Turdus modestus, P. Z. S. (1839),^. 103. Strickl, 
P. Z. S. (1846), p. 100. 
Turdus javanicus, apud Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 161. 
Striee, Java, Drapiez. 
KwARAN, Malay, Eg ton. 
Mtai-loo-nghet, Arracan, Phayre. 
A. ^.c.d.^ ? . Malacca. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
Turdus rufulus. " Upper parts greenish olive-brown, with a dull 
white supercilium ; chin, and generally the medial portion of the 
throat, with the belly and lower tail-coverts, white ; breast and flanks 
brownish fulvous, brighter in old males ; the throat and foreneck 
streaked laterally with olivaceous, which in some specimens crosses 
the breast above the fulvous hue, and is more or less ashy ; others 
again, evidently the old males, have the entire crown and neck all 
round of a dusky ash-colour, mingled with white on the middle of 
the throat ; bill dusky above, the basal two-thirds of the lower 
mandible, yellow ; legs pale brown. Length 8|- to 9 in., of wing 
4i to 5 in., tail 3| in., bill to gape 1 in., and tarse 1\ in." 
Genus Merula, Leach {p. 196). 
657. MERULA SIMLLLIMA, Jerdon Sp. 
Turdus simillimus, Jerd., Mad7\ Journ. X.^. 253 (1839). 
O. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 219. BlytJi, J. A. 
S. Beng. XI. p. 882. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 274. 
Merula simillima, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XVI. p. 148 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 162. 
Turdus nigropileus, Lafres., JDeless. Toy. dans VInde Av. 
p. 27 (1843). Jerd., Madr. Jomn. XIIL^^. 2,p. 127. 
The Neilgherry Blackbird, Jerdon. 
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