3. BXJENESIA. 2 LI 



B. Egypt, p. 98 (187:i) ; Antin. 8f Saltad. Viaqg. Bogos, p. 108 

 (187;3); Dresser, B. Europe, iii. p. 13, pi. 11 (1870); Danford, 

 Ibis, 1880, p. 84. 

 Suya gracilis, Leith Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 17 ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 63. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, with broad longi- 

 tudinal centres of darker brown, the edges to the feathers of the 

 Lead and mantle being ashy fulvous ; rump brown, streaked nar- 

 rowly with dark brown ; wing-coverts dark brown, with narrow 

 ashy brown margins, more fulvous on the median and greater 

 series ; the bastard-wing feathers edged with whity brown ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills dark brown, with fulvous-brown edges ; 

 upper tail-coverts pale ashy brown, with darker centres ; tail-feathers 

 very pale brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, all 

 narrowly tipped with white, before which is a very distinct blackish 

 bar ; lores and feathers round eye whitish ; an indistinct eyebrow 

 of pale ashy brown ; ear-coverts ashy, slightly suffused with brown ; 

 cheeks, throat, and undcrparts white, tinged with yellow on the 

 breast and sides ; sides of breast ashy, and narrowly streaked with 

 brown ; thighs more distinctly rufous ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries light tawny buff ; quills brown below, ashy rufous along 

 inner web ; " bill brown ; legs brownish flesh-colour ; iris brownish 

 yellow " (Shelley). Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-7, 

 tail 2'3, tarsus 0"75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but smaller. Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-7. 



With reference to the distinctness of this species from B. lepida, 

 it should be noted that even in Egypt Capt. Shelley observed two 

 forms, a light and a dark-coloured one, the latter being found in the 

 Delta, while the other occurs in Nubia and Upper Egypt. {Cf. 

 Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 98.) 



Hcih. N.E. Africa and Arabia, ranging through Palestine into 

 Asia Minor. 



a. S ad. sk. Tiberias. Canon Tristram [CI. 



b. 2 ad. sk. River Kishon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Gennesaret (Trisfrav)). R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Geuiit'sant, March 31, F, D. Godman and O. Sal- 



1SU4 {Tridrum). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Nubia. Dr. Leith Adams [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Nubia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



g. cJ ad. sk. Nile, between 1st and Dr. A. Leith Adams [P.]. 



2nd Cataract. 

 h, I. S 2 ad. sk. Zoulla, Anuesley Bay, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 

 Jan. 28, 1868. 



9. Burnesia lepida. 



Priuia lepida, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beiuj. xiii. p. 376 (1844). 



Drvmoica lepida, Bh/th, J. A. ti[ Benq. xvi. p. 460 (1846); Gray, 

 Om. B. i. p. 164 (1848) ; Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. Asr. Soc. p. 143 

 (1849); id. Ibi", 1865, p. 44: Grai/. lland-l. B. i, p. 201, 

 no. 2832. 



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