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Merula olivatra.
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Plate CXIII
Merula euryzona.
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Philip Lutley Sclater and Osbert Salvin (The Ibis, 1871) argued that the scientific name Merula euryzona was the same species as one which Sclater alone had published 14 years earlier (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1857 [1858])--Turdus fulviventris. As the name euryzona was taken from a series of unpublished drawings ("tab. 34") from around the year 1850 (1845 in Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit Mus., vol. V) by Bernard du Bus [de Gisignies], Esquisses Ornithologiques, Sclater and Salvin favored it over the latter. "We are not sure that [D]u Bus's plate was ever really published; but as it exists in the Zoological Society's copy of this work, we give [D]u Bus's name priority." However, Sclater's name, the type specimen of which had likewise been figured in The Ibis (1861, pl. viii), ultimately prevailed as the first published name for this species of thrush. Charles Hellmayr (Catalogue of Birds of the Americas.., Volume XIII, part VII) notes that only the first twenty of du Bus de Gisignies' unpublished plates of were ever issued. Hellmayr suggests that the actual sketch of euryzona cannot be traced; however, Newton (A Dictionary of Birds (1896)), wrote: "Simultaneously with this Du Bus began a work on a plan precisely similar [Des Murs' Iconographie Ornithologique], the Esquisses Ornithologiques, illustrated by Severyns, which, however, stopped short in 1849 with its 37th plate, while the letterpress unfortunately does not go beyond that belonging to the 20th." A Dictionarty of Birds, Alfred Newton, 1896. Adam and Charles Black, London.
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CXX
Merula whiteheadi.
CXXI
Merula celebensis.
CXXII
Merula javanica.
CXXIII
Merula vitiensis, (female).
[Merula] layardi, (female).
CXXIV
Merula vitiensis, (male).
[Merula] layardi, (male).
Plate CXXVI.
Merula xanthopus.
Loyalty Is./New Caledonia
Plate CXXXVIII.
Merula erythropleura.
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CXXV
Merula vinitincta.
This form of thrush, now considered an extinct race of Turdus poliocephalus (Howard and Moore), formerly occurred on Norfolk Island.
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CXLIV
CXLII
CXXXIX
Merula obscura.
CXLI
Merula feae.
CXXXVII
Merula chrysolaus.
CXXXIV
Merula hortulorum.
CXXXVI
Merula celaenops.
CXLVIII
Mimocichla plumbea.
CXLIX
Mimocichla ardesiaca.
CXXXI
Merula aurantia.
CXXXII
Merula nigriceps.
CXXXIII
CXXIX
Merula reevii.