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Family TUEDID^E. 



58. PRATINCOLA MAURA (Pallas). 



Female, adult, Tbiau-Shan jMouiitaius, north of Kashgar, September 

 15, 1893 j 9,000 feet. "Bill and feet black; length, 5^ inches." 



Male, immature, Tagdurabash Pamir, June 10, 1894; 13,000 feet. 

 "Length, ."i.^ inches." 



Female, adult, Tagdumbash raniir, June 11, 1894; i;;,()()() feet. 

 "Length, 5:^^ inches. Eggs of this sx)ecimen also sent." 



The immature male is in rather worn plumage, and is almost exactly 

 similar in color to the adult female. It has the throat black with a 

 slight admixture of pale buff feathers like those of the female ; the ear- 

 coverts are nearly uniform black; the white patch on sides of the neck 

 and breast is almost entirely wanting; a few black feathers are present 

 on the crown, while the forehead is largely black; there are also a very 

 few black feathers on the back. The under wing-coverts, thighs, wings, 

 breast (the fore breast is slightly brighter), and remainder of underparts 

 are similar to those of the female; terminal half of lateral tail feathers 

 similar to those of the female, basal half black as in the adult male. 



These specimens are of the same form collected in Kashmir by Dr, 

 Abbott, and recently recorded in a paper' on his Kashmir collection, 

 which see. 



59. SAXICOLA PLESCHANKA, Lepechin. 



Female, adult, Thian-Slian Mountains, north of Kashgar, KSeptember 

 10, 1893; 6,000 feet. "Length, G.i inches." 



Male, adult, Thian-Shan Mountains, north of Kashgar, September 10, 

 1893; <),000 feet. "Length, 0^ inches." 



Male, adult, Thian-Shan Mountains, north of Kashgar, September Lj, 

 1893; 9,000 feet. "Bill and feet black; length, (M inclies." 



These autumn birds from the Thian-Shan Mountains are so much 

 larger than the summer birds collected in Kashmir by Dr. Abbott, and 

 the black on the lateral rectrices is so restricted, that it is very diflScult 

 to reconcile the two lots to one form. I presume the present series 

 represents true S. plescJianka. 



Measurements of Scuicola 2)h'8cha>ila. 



60. SAXICOLA ISABELLINA, Cretzschmar. 



Male, adult, west of Kashgar, Eastern Turkestan, IVIarch L*7, 1894. 

 "Bill and feet black; length, C^ inches." 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 1895, p. 479. 



