28 AET. 13. — E. LÖNNBEEG ! 



Length of wing 70-73 mm. in males ; 69 mm. in the specimen 

 presumed to be of the female sex. 



Not mentioned by Nikolski, but no doubt a breeder in 

 the island. 







35. Cichloselifs (Oreocincla) sihirica davisoni (Hume). 



Tretiya Padj : 1?, June 18. 



Chipesani : 2d^cf (one of them wrongly labeled as " $ "), 

 Aug. 25. 



I have convinced myself after making comparisons that these 

 three specimens belong to the form which was named davisoni 

 by Hume, though later on he withdrew this name himself. It 

 was re-established by Seebohm in 1895. In my opinion the most 

 appropriate way would be to regard it as a subspecies of sibirica. 

 The two male specimens recorded above are both young, though 

 one of them has nearly finished its moult so that tliere remain 

 only some juvenile feathers on the throat and a few more 

 scattered on the upper part of chest. The latter feathers have 

 buffy white subterminal spots bordered with black. The throat 

 and cheeks are dirty huffish white with small blackish terminal 

 spot to feathers. The under-parts are dark slaty gray w^ith 

 longish central white spots to some of the feathers in the middle 

 of belly. The under-tail-coverts are tipped with white, but less 

 broadly than in G. sibirica. The upper parts arc bluish slaty 

 black. The wings are suffused with brown on the edges of the 

 quills, and that more broadly on the greater coverts ; but there 

 are no *' ochraceous tips" to the wing-coverts as in the "males 

 of the year " of G. sibirica according to the Brit. Mus. Cat. of 

 Birds, vol. Y., p. 181.; nor is the breast "barred." 



