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TURDIDiE. 
Turdus obscurus Gin. (5-273.) Eye-browed Blackbird. 
Turdus obscurus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 816, 1789 : Siberia. 
(Fig. Dresser, i. pi. 9 ; Seebohm, Monogr. Thrushes, ii. pi. 139.) 
Distr. — Siberia to Malay Archipelago and Pelew Islands. 
Turdus vitiensis Lay. Fiji Island Blackbird. 
Distr. — Fiji Islands. 
Turdus vitiensis vitiensis Lay. (5-278.) 
Turdus vitiensis Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, p. 305 : Vanua 
Levu, Fiji. (Fig. Seebohm, Monogr. Thrushes, ii. pi. 123.) 
Merula vanuensis Seebohm, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1890, p. 667, 1891: new 
name for above. 
Distr. — Vanua Levu Island. 
Turdus vitiensis layardi (Seeb.). 
Merula layardi Seebohm, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1890, p. 667, 1891: 
Viti Levu, Fiji. (Fig. Seebohm, Monogr. Thrushes, ii. pi. 124.) 
Distr. — Fiji Islands (Viti Levu). 
Turdus xanthopus Forst. Vinous-tinted Blackbird. 
Distr .— New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. 
Turdus xanthopus xanthopus Forst. (5-276.) 
Turdus xanthopus Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. p. 266, (pref. Jan. 
1st) 1844 : New Caledonia. (Fig. Seebohm, Monogr. Thrushes, ii. 
pi. 126.) 
Distr. — New Caledonia. 
Turdus xanthopus vinitinctus (Gould). (5-277.) 
Merula vinilincta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1855, p. 165, 
Dec. 18th: Lord Howe Island. (Fig. Gould, Suppl. pi. 31 ; 
Seebohm, Monogr. Thrushes, ii. pi. 125 ; Math. Suppl. pi. 26.) 
Distr. — Lord Howe Islands. 
Genus GEOKICHLA Mull/ 
Geokichla Muller, Tijds. Naturl. Gesch. Phys. vol ii. pt. iii. p. 348, 
1835. Type : Turdus citrinm Latham (cf. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
xxxv. p. 610, 1898). 
Geokichla peroni (V.). Timor Ground-Thrush. 
Distr. —Timor and Dammar Islands. 
* Qeo-kichla singular is Macklot occurs in Bijdragen Tot. de Natuurkundige 
Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, 1830, p. 175 (D. V. St. T.), as a rumen nudum. 
