MERULA MELANOPLEURA.
TRINIDAD GREY OUZEL.
Turdus flampes (neo Vieill.), E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 80; Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 199 (1866);
Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. vi. p. 22 (1894).
Merula carbon'iria (nec Licht.), Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 253 (1881).
<J similis M. flampedi, sed gastnei nigredine magis extensk: abdominc n ig ro : subcaudalibus et hypochondria
schistaceis, nigro adumbratis: interscapulio quoque nigro lavato.
In the British Museum is a skin of a male Grey Ouzel said to be from Trinidad, and formerly in the
Seebohm Collection. The locality is probably correct. Ldotaud says that the species is only a
migrant in Trinidad, and therefore it must be an accidental variety only.
Adult male. Similar to M.flampes, but differing in having the black of the head and hind-neck
overspreading the mantle, and, on the under surface, extending over the entire abdomen, so as to
leave the flanks dark slaty-grey, intermixed with black, and the under tail-coverts slaty-grey with
black tips ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, the latter with slaty-grey bases : “ bill, feet, and
eyelid bright yellow; iris brown” (Leotaud). Total length 8'0inches,culmen0-75,wing4'5, tail3T,
tarsus 1*0.
The male described and figured is in the Seebohm Collection. The author also identified a
female as belonging to this species, but I am not sufficiently convinced of the correctness of this
determination to venture to describe it. [R*
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