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Oloinrlii /ik'ieiiieiiroides subsp. mmnntiwi. Bogd., t. c. pp. 14. l!l. "Jill & 215. 

 Olomfln phoeniciiriiiiIeK subsp. knreliiii Bogd., t. c. pp. 14. 23. 201. 202 & 21ti. 



Otoiiiela i-aiia Zarudny. Mafrrial. Kcniilnis. Faun. FIni: liiiss. Rekhi. Zonl. Tcil. ii. p. 1!14 (IStMi) ; 

 cf. Oni. Mimiil^b. v. p. 183 (1897) (Transcaspia). 



Ailiilt male. — General colonr alxivc lirown, sometimes with a slijiiitly nit'ou.-i 

 tinge ; forehead and top of the head dull vinaeeniis-red ; nimii, n|i|)er tail-edvcrts 

 and tail chestnut (in one adnlt male tVom the (ioolis Jits., Soniaiihmd, tlie miihlle 

 jiair of tail-feathers are dusky towards the extremity, and the outer pair have a 

 snhterminal bar or blotch of brownish black) ; a narrow band of feathers across 

 base of culmeu, as well as the lores and ear-coverts black ; superciliary strijies 

 ])nre white and well marked, uniting with one another in a narrow band across 

 the forehead: nnderj)arts jiure white tinged with j)ale rufous on the flanks; 

 primaries black with white bases, forming a well-marked spectrum, which extends 

 about <i-3 in. beyond the greater covert. 



Total length ca. T-o in. ; wing 3-7, tail ',Vi, tarsus M. 



Adult femfilc. — Similar to the nude. 



Immature bird. — Similar to the adnlt, but the fealliers of the head, cheeks, 

 sides of the neck, breast and flanks are as usual more or less l)arred with dusky ; 

 tlie white base to the primaries is absent. 



Ilah. North East Africa and South West and ('eiitnil Asia, ranging westwards 

 to Abyssinia and North Somaliland, southwards to Southern Arabia, eastwards 

 to Afghanistan, and northwards to the Kirghiz Steppes. 



A quite young bird [Djarkeud, August 15th, Zarudmj (Mns. Rothsch.)] has 

 most of the up]ier]iarts more or less indistinctly barred witli dusky ; the foreliead 

 is whitish and the ear-coverts reddisli brown ; the greater coverts and innermost 

 secondaries rufous with pale edges and a snbmarginal black line ; the chest, 

 sides and flanks with dusky concentric markings : the tail-feathers are tipi>ed 

 with whitish butf, and have a subterminal A-shaped black bar. 



YoiirKjcr hird.s, also from Djarkend [Mus. Kothschild], killed on April Sth 

 and May 13th, have nearly assumed adult plumage, but may still be distinguisheil 

 from the adult by the paler colonr of the crown, which still bears traces of 

 indistinct cross-bars, the white lores, red-brown ear-coverts, and by the dusky 

 bars and markings on the sides of the neck and breast. 



Through the kindness of Professor Reichenow I have been able to examine 

 the type specimen of L. /dwe/iir-urotdes Severtz. — a tiiale from Turkestan, 

 April loth, Fedtschenko coll. ; this bird has the crown of the same dull vinaceous-red 

 as specimens in the British Museum collection. Specimens from East Africa 

 differ somewhat in having the crown dull lilac-brown. 1 have examined the 

 male obtained by Mr. 0. Neumann at Teita, which difi'ers from all the specimen- 

 in the ]?ritish Museum ; these range from North Somaliland, Abyssinia to Arabi. 

 Persia, Turkestan and Afghanistan. Mr. Neumann informs us that all the East 

 African birds ilitfei' constantly in the lihic-brown colonr of the crown, but without 

 additional material it does not seem to me advisable to separate them, as it docs 

 not seem clear that the difference is not due to season. 



P. do."), line I at bottom, read: " ]ierspicillata," instead of " pci'cispilhitu." 



21 APR.:.>J 



