MERULA SUBA LA R I S , LeverL
BEHN’S OUZEL.
Manila mlalaris, Leverkuhn, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 557.
M. similis M. nigricipiti, sed subalaribus et axillaribus albis distinguenda.
To the I Proceedings’ of the Zoological Society for 1887 Seet.ohm communicated a description of
this species by Dr. Leverkiihn, who characterized it as nearly allied to M. nigriceps, but distinguished
by its whiter throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, and especially by its white under wmg-coverts
and axillaries. In M. nigriceps the under wing-coverts are slaty-grey and the crown is black, whereas
in M. subalaris the crown is scarcely darker than the back.
The typical specimen is in the Museum at Kiel, and Dr. Leverkiihn, who was in 1887 engaged
in naming the birds there, sent it to Seebohmfor determination. Professor Cabanis (J. f. O. 1888,
p. 113) states that he had also seen the example in question, but had left it to Prof. Behn to describe.
He speaks of the locality where it was obtained as “ Peru.” >
Dr. Behn was the naturalist attached to the expedition of the Danish Corvette ‘ Galathea, an
account of which was published, according to Seebohm, in a book bearing the title, ‘ Beretning om
Corvetten Gaiathea’s Keise omkring Jorden’ (Copenhagen, 1849-51). Dr. Behn’s specimens
collected during the voyage seem to. have remained in the Kiel Museum for forty years without being
described.
Seebohm ¡ J c.j gives the following note ou the discovery of the species “ In the months ot
July and August 1847, Dr. Behn appears to have travelled in the valley of the Parana in South
America, for on the 10th of August he shot an example of Turdus albiventris at Jaragua, having
previously obtained an example of the same species on the 11th of July in the valley of the Bio
Grande in the Province of Sao Paulo. Two days earlier (on the 9th of July) he appears to have
been at a place called Jutuba, which is presumably in the same valley of Southern Brazil. Here
he obtained a Thrush which appears to belong to an undescribed species.”
The figure has been drawn from the typical example lent to Seebohm by Dr. Paul Leverkuhn
from the Kiel Museum. B' S'J