214 TIMELIIDiE. 



Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 1-85, tar- 

 sus 0-8. 



" In one of my specimens the streaks on the chin and throat are 

 altogether wanting ; the central tail-feathers are pretty conspi- 

 cuously margined with greyish brown, and both the lateral feathers 

 on each side arc tipped with white, in some specimens the external 

 pair being pretty broadly so tipped. The following are dimensions 

 of a male taken in the flesh : — Length 4*7 ; expanse 6"2 ; tail from 

 vent 2 ; wing 1'9 ; wings when closed reach to within 1-6 of end of 

 tail ; bill at front 0'35 ; tarsus O'S ; weight 0-3 of an oz. I should 

 note that in one specimen not only the sides and flanks, but the 

 whole abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts are strongly tinged 

 with pale rufous-fawn." {Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 200.) 



Young. Darker than the adult and more ashy brown, with very 

 distinct streaks of blackish brown ; lores and eyebrow as well as 

 sides of face pale vinous ; throat and fore neck white, with distinct 

 though narrow black streaks. 



Hah. Desert countries from Arabia Petraea eastwards to Persian 

 Baluchistan and Southern Afghanistan to the North-western Punjab. 



a. (S juv. sk. Magas, between Dizak and W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Bampiir, Baluchistan, 

 March 28, 1872. 



b. S ad. sk. East of Shiraz, Jime 4, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



1872. 



c. Ad. sk. El Eahab, Sinaitic penin- Claude W. Wyatt, Esq. 



sula. [P.]. 



2. Scotocerca saharsB. 



Mahu'us saharse, Loche, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1858, p. .395, pi. xi, 



fig. 2. 

 Drymoica striaticeps, Tristr. Ibis, 1859, pp. 58 & 419 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 199, no. 2782 (1869). 

 Drymoica saharse, Loche, Expl. Sci. de I'Algerie, Ois. p. 283 (1867). 

 DrymcBca striaticeps, JBlanf. Ibis, 1874, p. 76. 



Adult. General colour above ashy isabelline, with indistinct 

 brown centres, forming a slightly streaked appearance, a little more 

 distinct on the head ; wing-coverts and quills pale brown, margined 

 with isabelline ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; centre tail- 

 feathers light brown in the centre, washed externally with pale 

 isabelline, remainder of the feathers dark brown, broadly edged with 

 isabelline, the outer feathers tipped with a spot of white and edged 

 externally with white : lores and a distinct eyebrow pale isabelline ; 

 in front of the eye a black spot, as also a small black streak above 

 the ear-coverts ,'\ ear-coverts pale isabelline ; cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface white ; a very faint line of black separating the cheeks 

 from the throat ; on the fore neck a few dusky spots ; sides of the 

 body, flanks, and thighs isabelline, streaked with pale rufous on the 

 flanks, and with brown on the sides of the breast ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries isabelline ; quills below light brown, inner 



