454 Zoological Society : — 



Male : forehead, lores, ear-coverts, throat, fore part of breast, back, 

 upper wing-coverts, apical and basal portion of the secondaries and 

 tertiaries, and the two medial tail-feathers black ; exterior margin of 

 the outer tail-feather and apical margin of the rest dusky black ; me- 

 dial portion of both webs of the secondaries and tertiaries white ; 

 crown of head and back of neck slaty ash, rather whitish above the 

 ear-coverts ; breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, upper and lower 

 tail-coverts and tail (except as above) rufous. Female : above brown, 

 the wing-patch rufescent white ; beneath rufescent ; upper and lower 

 tail-coverts and tail (except the medial feathers of the latter which 

 are dusky brown) rufous ; bill and legs black. 



Length, 5 inches ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2^ ; bill to gape, f ; and tarse, f . 



10. RUTICILLA LEUCOPTERA, Blyth. 



Syn. Phaenicura leucoptera, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 962. 



Ruticilla leucoptera, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134; Catal. 

 B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 168. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. 

 Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 



Hab. Malacca ; Java. In Mus. As. Soc. Bengal. 



*' Size of i2. phoenicura, and much resembling in plumage It. nipa- 

 lensis, but smaller and the wings much shorter than in the latter 

 species ; it is also generally similar to R. phoenicura, but has no white 

 on the forehead, which, with the crown, neck, and fore part of the 

 back, are ash-grey ; the middle of the back is black, as are also the 

 lores, ear-coverts, throat and breast ; and the rest of the under parts, 

 with the rump and tail, except the medial feathers of the latter, are 

 bright ferruginous, the exterior web of the outermost tail-feather being 

 marked with dusky ; wings dusky, having a large white patch occu- 

 pying the base of the secondaries and tertiaries, extending over both 

 webs of each feather ; bill and feet black. According to season, the 

 dorsal plumage is margined with brown edgings, the under parts 

 more slightly with greyish, and the wing-coverts with brown. Fe- 

 male plain brown above, paler beneath, with rufous tail, and the same 

 great white wing-patch as in the male. 



*' Length about 6 inches ; of wing, 2f ; tail, 2f ; bill to gape, f ; 

 tarse, f .'* 



11. Ruticilla cjeruleocephala, Vigors. 



Syn. Phoenicura cceruleocephala. Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 35. 

 Gould, Cent, of Birds, t. 25. f. 2. Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 190. 



Ruticilla cceruleocephala, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. 

 Hodgs. Catal. B. of Nep. p. 68. Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134 ; 

 Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 1 68. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 



Hab. N. India. la Mus. East India Company. 



12. Ruticilla schisticeps, Hodgson. 



Syn. Phoenicura schisticeps, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc.(1844)p.83. 

 Ruticilla schisticeps, Hodgs. Catal. B. of Nep. p. 69, etApp. p. 153. 

 Hab. Nepal (No. 813. Hodffs. Catal.) . 

 " Side of the head and neck, back, wings and tail black ; top of 



