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CATALOGUE. 
A. B. G. d. e. ^ ? and young. Madras. From Wight's 
Collection. 
/ Madras. Presented by Jolin Gould, Esq., 1853. 
" Inhabits the Neilgherries, in the dense woods of which it is very 
common, and may be daily heard pouring forth its charming song, 
especially towards evening, and in cloudy weather. It is found alone, 
or in small families. It lives chiefly on fruit of different kinds, 
especially of the pleasant Brazil cherry, now so abundant in the 
woods there ; also feeds on worms, caterpillars, and other soft 
insects." — (Jerdon.) 
658. MERULA WABDII, Jerdon Sp. 
Turdus Wardii, Jerd., J. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 882 (1842) ; 
III. Ind. Orn. t. 8 ; Ifadr. Journ. XIII. pt. 2, p. 127. 
G. B. Gray, Gen, of Birds, 1. p. 219. Hodgs., Cat. 
Birds of Nep., p. 81. 
Morula Wardii, BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XVI. p. 146 ; 
XX. p. 177. Lagard, Ann. Nat. Hist. (1853), 
p. 270. 
Turdus melanoleucus, Sartlaub. 
Turdus picaoides, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 83, 
Oreocincla (s. g. Turdulus) micropus, Hodgs., Gray^s 
Zool. Misc. (1844), p. 83, ? . 
Turdus micropus, Sodgs., Cat. Birds of Nep. p. 80. 
Ward's Blackbird. 
A. J. S, India. Presented by John Gould, Esq., 1853. 
M. Wardii. " Male black, with white eye-streak and under-parts 
from the breast, except the feathers of the flanks, which are only 
margined with white ; and, besides a white wing-patch under the 
scapularies, the wing-coverts and tertiaries are tipped with the same, 
and the secondaries and middle tail-feathers, with the upper tail- 
coverts, more slightly, the rest of the tail-feathers being successively 
more deeply so tipped, increasing in amount to the outermost. 
The female has the upper parts brown instead of black, with slight 
whitish tips to the upper tail-coverts, and less white on the tail- 
feathers, which is also less pure ; the wing-coverts are each tipped 
with a triangular spot of fulvous- white, and the tertiaries more 
slightly ; the supercilium is also fidvous-white, and the entire under- 
