IG. AROi-A. 8<J5 



and throat dull wliite ; remainder of under surface of body pale 

 isabelline fulvous, longitudinally streaked with dark brown on the 

 sides of the fore neck and breast, which are ashy brown ; the sides of 

 the body entirely ashy brown ; flanks fulvous-brown ; under tail- 

 coverts light ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale tawny 

 buff; (piills light brown below, isabelline along the margin of the 

 inner web. Total length 9-4 inches, culmcn 0-8, wing 3-25, tail 5, 

 tarsus 1"1. 



Hah. Afghanistan westwards to Persia. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Ispidan, near Aftan, east of W. T. Blauford, Esq. [C.]. 



JSampur, Baluchistan, 



March 31, l87i^ 



h. (S ad. sk. Ivazeruni, west of Shiraz, Col. St. John [C.]. 



28()() feet. 



c. Ad. sk. Near Shiraz {Keith Abbott). Gould Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Bagdad. K. Loftus, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Candaliar. Capt. Ilutton [P.l. 



f. d ad. sk. Candahar, Dec. 30, 1880. Col. C. Swiuhoe [P.], 



10. Argya squamiceps. 



Malurus squaruiceps, Cretzschm. mRiip2). Atlas, p. 19, Taf . 12(1826). 

 Sphenura squamiceps, Hempr. Sf Ehr. iSi/mb. Phys. fol. cc, dd (1828); 



liiipp. Sijst. Uebers. p. CO (1845) ; Heuyl. 8)jst. Uebers. p. 30 



(1850). 

 Argya rueppelli. Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 402 (1831). 

 Crateropus squaiuatus. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 224 (184G). 

 Argya squamiceps. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 84 (18o()); Dresser, B. 



Eur. iii. pi. 23 (1875). 

 Crateropus squamiceps, Bp. Consp. i. p. 278 (1850); Gray, ILand-l. 



B. i. p. 279, no. 4114 (18C9). 

 Crateropus chalvbeus, Bp. C. i?. xlii. p. 705(1850); Tristr. Ibis, 



1859, p. 30, 1802, p. '278, 1805, p. 79. 

 Chatorhea chalybeius, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 6. 



Adult male. General colour above pale ashy brown, with indistinct 

 shaft-streaks of dark brown on the head, mantle, and back, but 

 absent on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, which 

 arc lighter ashy ; head more broadly streaked with blackish brown, 

 the forehead greyer, the feathers being edged with ashy grey, like- 

 wise those of the supcrciliar}- lino and sides of neck; wing-coverts 

 jialc ashy brown with narrow darker brown shaft-lines ; quills light 

 brown, cxternan}' ashj' brown, lighter along the outer edges of the 

 primaries ; tail-feathers light ashy brown, the outer ones paler along 

 the edges and at the tips ; lores dusky whitish ; ear-coverts pale 

 brown, somewhat mottled with ashy margins to the feathers; cheeks 

 a little paler ashy ; throat whitish ; remainder of under surface of 

 body pale ashy brown, somewhat washed with isabelline on the 

 flanks, the breast faintly mottled with dusky centres to the feathers, 

 with dark shaft-lines; centre of abdomen, vent, and under tailcoverts 

 light ashy fulvous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale sandy 

 buff; quills light brown below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the 



