1. SILVIA. 19 



8. Sylvia affinis. 



Motacilla sylvia (Linn.), apudPall. Zoogr. Hosso-Asiat. i. p. 488 (181 1). 



Sylvia sylviella (Lath.), apud Sijkcs, P. Z. S. 1832. p. 89. 



Sj'hia gaiTula {Brclist.), apud Eversm. Add. Fall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiaf, 



fa<c. i, p. 21 (18;)"j). 

 Curruca fjarrula {Bechst.), apud Jcrdon, Madr.'Journ. x. p. 269 (1839), 



apml Tacz. Btdl. Sac. Zool. France, i. p. 142 (187G). 

 Curruca svlviella (Lath.), apiidBli/th,J.A.S.Benq. xiv.p. 564 (184o). 

 Sylvia aiRuis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 187 (1849) ; Hume, 



Straif Feath. vii. p. fiO (1878). 

 Pyropiilhalma affinis (Bli/th), Bp. Consp. i. p. 293 (1850). 

 Sylvia curruca {Linn.), apud Jlorsf. >§• Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E.L. Co, 



i. p. 344 (]8o4), apud Jerdoti, B. Lnd. ii. p. 209 (1863), apud 



Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 35.5, apud Severtz. Turkest. Jevof.n. p. 65 



(1873), aimd Hume S> Benders. Lahore to Yark. p. 221 (1873), 



apud Blanf. East. Fers. ii. p. 175 (1876), apinl Prjev. Boicleifs Orn. 



Misc. ii. p. 170 (1877), apud Eavid et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 240 



(1877). 

 Sterparola curruca (Linn.), apud LIume, Kcsts 8)- Eqgs Lnd. B. pt. ii. 



p. 373 (1874). 

 Sylvia curruca {Linn.), subsp. affinis Blgth, Secbohm, Lhis, 1879, p. 8. 



This is au Eastern form. Differs from the typical species only in 

 having the second priuiarj' generally intermediate in length befyyeen 

 the sixth and seventh, in rare instances between the seventh and 

 eighth ; in all other respects (size &c.) it does not ditfer from the 

 AVestcrn form. 



The Siberinn form of the Lesser Whitethroat breeds throughout 

 Siberia, extending northwards almost to the limit of forest-growth, 

 and southwards into North Persia, Turkestan, and Xorth-east China. 

 It winters in Baluchistan and the whole of India and Ceylon. Ex- 

 amples occasionally occur in Europe which agree in wing-formula 

 &c. with the Eastern form. 



a. S ad. sk. Yene.^av, lat. 66^°, June 26, Hemy Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



1877. 



b. cJad.sk. Malo-Atlim,Obb,'W. Siberia, Bremen Geogr. Soc. 



July 7 {Dr. Lutsch). 



c. Ad. sk. India. Sec. of State for India [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. N.W. India. Capt. Stackhouse Pin-nTU 



[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Shikapore, Afghanistan. Sec. of State for India [P.]. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Bandii,Eundi'lkund,Dec. 16 R. B. Shai^pe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Capt. .Marshall), 

 q. (S ad. sk. Mnr.-hedabad, Nov. liCajit. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Marshall), 

 h. S ad. sk. Agrn, Feb. 10 {Capt. Mar- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



shall), 

 i. S ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. 8k. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/,»?(,«. Ad. sk. Kiii\\^AY (Er, Belleiv). India Museum. 



The synonymy of the Ilimalayan form is as follows : — 



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