Mr. F. Moore on the genus Ruticilla. 453 



dark brown, margined with pale rufescent ; lower part of back, upper 

 tail-coverts and tail rufous, the two medial feathers dark brown, ex- 

 terior margin of the outer dusky. 

 Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 



7. Ruticilla erythrogastra, Giildenstadt. 



Syn. Motacilla erythrogastra, Giildenst. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. 

 p. 469. t. 16, 17. Gmel. S. N. L. i. p. 975. 



Sylvia erythrogastra. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 503 ; Gen. Hist. vii. 

 p. 27. 



Motacilla ceraunia, Pallas, Zoogr. i. p. 478. 

 I Ruticilla yrandis, Gould, P. Z. S. (1849) p. 112. 



Ruticilla erythrogastra, Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. Gould, Bir4$ 

 ofAsia, t. 50. -j 



The Chestnut-bellied Warbler, Lath. ,jl 



Hab. Cashmere; Kumaon ; Nepal (No. 969. Hodgs. CataL), Jji 

 Mus. East India Company. 



" This species frequents the gravelly hollows of the Caucasian tor- 

 rents during the whole of the summer, and migrates southward, in 

 search of food, on the approach of winter ; it runs along the banks of 

 rivers ; is restless, but not fearful ; often moving its tail while sitting 

 on the low shrubs ; it makes its nest among the branches of the sea 

 buckthorn, of the berries of which it is very fond." — Giildenstadt. 



8. Ruticilla Vigorsi, nobis. 



Female : above, head, neck and back cinereous ; wings dusky, with 

 paler margins ; beneath rufescent ; upper tail-coverts and tail rufous, 

 the two medial feathers dusky, as is also the exterior web of the 

 outer and tip of each feather, but paler ; bill and legs black. 



Length, 7 inches ; wing, A\ ; first quill 1^ inch shorter than the 

 second, the third -^ longer than the second, fourth and fifth equal 

 and longest, the third and sixth equal and but a trifle shorter than 

 the fourth and fifth, the seventh a -4: inch longer than the second, 

 the eighth \ shorter than the second ; tail, 3 ; bill to gape, f ; and 

 tarse, 1. 



Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 



This may eventually prove to be the female of a species allied to 

 R. erythrogastra, but having no white wing-patch. 



9. Ruticilla aurorea, Pallas. 



Syn. Motacilla aurorea. Pall. Zoogr. i. p. 477. Kittl. Kupf. Voeg. 

 t. 2^. f. 1. Gmel. S. N. L. i. p. 976. Lath. Hist. vii. p. 92. 



Phcenicura Reevesii, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1832) p. 1. M'Clel- 

 land, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 161. 



Ruticilla aurorea, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180 (excl. syn.). 

 Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. fobJifoHs ofV 



Lusciola aurorea, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. t. 21 d. , -j^ ,,,;,., ,. 



Daurian Warbler, Lath. 1 .>|i5q gc,: 



Reeves'" s Redstart, Gray. , \]x^\ F.. 



Hab. Assam; China; Japan. In Mus. East India Company. 



