650 IIMELIID.IJ. 



(1827); StricJd. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 98; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 100 

 (1837) ; Macc). Brit. B. ii. p. 251 (1839) ; Norchn. in Demid. Voy. 

 liuss. merid. iii. p. 171 (1840) ; Selys-Longch. Faune Be/ye, p. 96 

 (1842) ; mwits. Eqgs Brit. B. i. p. 70, pi. 21. fig. 2 (1846) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 187 (1848) ; T/wmps. B. Irel. i. p. 156 (1849) ; Blyih, 

 Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 131 (1840); Bp. Cvn»p. i. p. .305 (1850) ; 

 Kjcerb. Damn. Fuyle, tab. 24 (1852) ; Schl. Voy. Nedni. pi. 122 

 (1854); Horsf. S^ Moore, Cat. B. B.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 360 (1854) ; 

 Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 285 ; Sundev. Scensk. Foyl. pi. 16. fig. 1 

 (1856-72) ; Jaub. Hf Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orii. p. 228 (1859) ; 

 Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 87 (1860) ; Potvys, Ibis, 1860, p. 228 ; 

 Schl. Bier. Nederl. Voy. pi. 12. fig.-^. 15, 15 a (1861) ; F. ^ P. God- 

 man, Ibis, 1861, p. 81 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. 55 (1862-73) ; 

 Gray, List Brit. B. p. 60 (1863) ; Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 67 ; More, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 21 ; Giqlioli, t. c. p. 53 ; Lilford, Ibis, 1866, pp. 177, 

 391 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 97 ; Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 439 ; Doderl. 

 Avif. Sicil. ^. U4: (\Sm) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 2.30, no. 3324 

 (1869) ; Keid. Onze Voy. pi. 24'(1869-73) ; Elioes ^- Buckley, Ibis, 



1870, p. 197; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 2-32 (1869); Fritsch, 

 Voy. Eur. tab. 25. fig. 15 (c. 1870)"; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 91 

 (1871) ; Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 301 (1871) ; Saunders, Ibis, 



1871, p. 212; Hartiny, Handb. Brit. B. p. 12 (1872) ; Shelley, B. 

 Egypt, p. 87 (1872); Brooke, Ibis, 1873, p. 240; Dresser, B. 

 Eur. iii. p. 39, pi. 101 (1873j ; Danf. Sr Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. .307; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 84 (1875); By grave Wharton, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 22 ;' Danf. Ibis, 1878, p. 18 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 376 ; 

 Sah\ Cat. Strickj. Coll. p. 60 (1882) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. i. 

 p. 497, pi. 12 (1883) ; B. 0. U. List Brit. B. p. 22 (1883). 



Prunella luodulavis, Vieill. Analyse, p. 43 (1816); Deyl. i^- Gerbe, 

 Orn. Eur. i. p. 466 (1867) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alye'r., Ois. i. p. 284 

 (1867) ; Bettoni, Ucc. Nidif. Lomb. pi. 52 (1869). 



Curruca elliotfe. Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. etc. Brit. Mus. p. 24 (1816). 



Tharrhaleiis modularis, Kaup, Skizz. Natilrl. Syst. p. 1.37 (1829). 



Accentor piuetoium, Brehm, Viiy. Deutschl.Tp. 457 (1831); id. Naum. 

 1865, p. 285. 



Adult. Geueral aspect of upper surface streaked ; the back red- 

 dish brown, the feathers somewhat paler-edged and broadh^ streaked 

 down the centre with blackish brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 nearly uniform olive-brown, with faint dusky centres to the latter ; 

 lesser wing-coverts reddish brown ; the median and greater coverts 

 dusky, externally reddish brown, and with narrow pale fulvous tips ; 

 bastard wing and primary-coverts dusky, edged with ashy fulvous : 

 quills dusky brown, externally reddish brown, the primaries mar- 

 gined with whity brown tow;irds the tips, and the inner secon- 

 daries also tipped with whity brown ; tail-feathers brown, margined 

 with paler brown ; head and nape much greyer and contrasting with 

 the back, slightly washed with olive, the feathers having dusky 

 brown centres ; lores and a distinct eyebrow dull grey ; ear-coverts 

 and feathers below the eye ashy, streaked with butfy white, the 

 former browner ; sides of the neck and under surface of the body 

 ashy grey ; the throat rather more hoary ; fore neck and chest with 

 a very slight shade of brown ; al)domen white ; sides of the body 



