12. EHOPOPHILUS. 117 



Key to the Species. 



a. Sides of body bright vinous chestnut, very 



distinctly streaked with rufous ; thighs 



vinous pekinensis, p. 117. 



h. Sides of body and thighs isabelline ; streaks 



very indistinct alhosuperciliaris, p. 117. 



1. RhopopMlus pekinensis. 



Drjonoeca pekinensis, Sivinh. Ibis, 1868, p. 62. 



Amytis pekinensis, J. Ven: Ibis, 1868, p. 499. 



Prinia pekinensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 197, no. 272.3 (1869). 



Rhopophilus pekinensis, Giqlioli S^ Sahad. Ibis, 1870, p. 187 ; Sioinh. 



P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 436, 443, 1871, p. 352 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxv. 



(1873) ; Prjev. in Dawson Roivleifs Orn. Misc. ii. p. 108 (1877) ; 



David >§• Oiist. Ois. Chine, p. 260, pi. 19 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with a vinous shade, 

 the mantle somewhat ashy ; all the upper surface streaked with 

 dark brown down the centre of the feathers ; wing-coverts ashy 

 brown ; bastard-wing feathers brown, externally isabelline ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills brown, externally edged with lighter brown, 

 the primaries whity brown towards the end of the outer web, inner 

 secondaries edged with isabelline at the tips ; upper tail-coverts and 

 centre tail-feathers brown, washed with olive-brown on the edges, 

 remainder dark brown, the three outer ones ashy towards their ends, 

 increasing towards the outermost, which is whitish near the tip of 

 the outer web ; crown of the head like the back and streaked in 

 the same way, but a little more rufesccnt ; lores and feathers round 

 the eye ashy fulvous, produced into a superciliary streak, which is 

 more decidedly ashy grey ; ear-coverts pale vinous brown, with a 

 dark line along the upper margin ; feathers in front of the eye 

 blackish, tipped with ashy brown ; cheeks white, separated from the 

 ear-coverts by a distinct line of black ; sides of the neck rufous, 

 streaked with ashy ; throat, fore neck, breast, and abdomen pure 

 white ; sides of the breast streaked with vinous chestnut ; flanks and 

 thighs uniform vinous chestnut ; under tail-coverts whitish, streaked 

 with rufous down the centre ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 isabelline ; quills ashy brown below, inner edges whitish ; " bill 

 brown, with the lower mandible yellowish ; feet rufous, claws 

 greyish brown; iris clear yellow, almost whiio'' (David). Total 

 length 7"4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-4, tail 37, tarsus 0"95. 

 {Mas. It. G. Wardlaiu liamsai/.) 



Hah. Northern China and Mongolia, Alashan and Chensi. 



2. Rhopophilus alhosuperciliaris. 



Suva alhosuperciliaris, ILiine ^- Hinders. lahore to Yarl: p. 218, 

 pi. xviii. (1873); Scl. Ibis, 1874, p. 185; Scidly, Str. F. 1876, 



Rhopophilus pekinensis (nee Swinh.), Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 147. 



