118 TIMELIID^. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above sandy 

 brown, narrowly streaked with darker brown towards the ends of 

 the feathers ; wing-coverts uniform sandy brown ; bastard-wing 

 brown, externally whity brown ; primary-coverts and quills brown, 

 externally sandy brown, paler and more whity brown on the margins 

 of the primaries ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform sandy brown ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, edged with sandy brown, inchning to 

 whity brown towards the ends of the outer feathers ; crown of the 

 head a little more rufescent, but streaked with dark brown in the 

 same manner as the back ; lores and eyebrow buffy whitish, as also 

 the feathers round the eye ; ear-coverts pale isabelline, darker 

 brown along the extreme upper margins ; cheeks white, separated 

 from the ear-coverts by a distinct line of black ; throat, breast, and 

 abdomen whitish ; sides of the breast streaked with pale vinous ; 

 flanks and thighs uniform pale isabelline ; under tail-coverts like 

 the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale isabelline ; 

 quills light ashy brown below, inner edges isabelline ; " bill brownish 

 black above, lower mandible flesh}' ; legs and feet flesh-colour ; 

 claws brownish horny ; iris dark brown " (ScuUi/). Total length 

 G'3 inclies, culmen 0-G, wing 2-6, tail 3-4, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult male. Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2"5, 

 tail '3-4, tarsus 0'9. (Mks. 11. G. Wardlaw Hamsaij.) 



Two young males according to Dr. Scidly had the bill grey horny, 

 brownish or dusky above ; irides dark brown ; legs and feet fleshy ; 

 claws brownish horny. 



Hab. Turkestan.* 



a. 5 ad. sk. Koslitak, Plains of Yarkand, Dr. Henderson [C]. 



Sept. 10. (Type of species.) 



13. LATICILLA. ^ 



Type. 

 Eurycercus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 374 (1844, nee 



Baird, 1843) L. burnesi. 



Laticilla, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 596 (1845) L. burnesi. 



Range. From Sindh down the valley of the Ganges, extending 

 into Lower Bengal. 



Ke)j to the Species. 



a. Under tail-coverts deep chestnut ; sides of neck 



tawuy buft", streaked with black burnesi, p. 119. 



b. Under tail-coverts whitish or pale fulvescent ; sides 



of neck uniform ashy brown cinerascens, p. 119. 



* RlIOPOPIIILUS DESERTI. 



Rliopophilus, Prjev. in Morgan's ed. Tian-Shan and Loh Nor, p. 63(1878). 

 Rhopophihis pekinensis, var. major, Prjev. ui supra. 



Hah. Tamir river, lat. 40° N., long. 86° E., north-east side of the desert of Gobi. 

 This bird, distinguished from R. pekinensis by its "larger size and paler 

 coloration," may prove to be R. albosuperciliaris. 



