Bell Bird 
Sons of 
Merula 
Gymnopthalma 
on the throat were soft and clammy to the touch. They 
looked much like pieffies of leather sh©e strings. I have 
never seen a bird of the size of this which was nearly so 
heavy. The body when taken out proved to be very broad 
and plump but it was not especially muscular. The skin was 
rather tough but it came off easily. The ej^’es were very 
large, theirides dark hazel. The stomach was enormously 
distended but on cutting it open I found that it contained 
only a single fruit, the stone of which I have put in 
alcohol, with the vocal organs. The pulp was more or less 
macerated but it appeared to be rather fleshy and it was 
of a dark purple color. This color had stained the feathers 
about both mouth and vent. The bird was singing. It was 
a male with testes of about this size, ^ 
For the past three evenings a Greive has sung at 
intervals for some time in the cacao grove by the river. 
Its song is strikingly like that of our Robin but less 
varied and energetic, yet at the same time more musical 
with something of the quality of the song of the English 
Blackbird, 
