336 



d'. Base of secondaries bro'WTi. 



c." Breast, flanks, and belly chestnut. 



.,.-r .-, i. • n r,' J. n 1 • 1, I rufivent.ris, p. 342. 



a'". Length of wing 3-3o to 31 inches . . j Jyfj,,^^,,^J„_ p. 341. 



b'". Length of -wing 3-06 to 2-G2 inches . . seminifa, p. 344. 

 d". Breast, flanks, and belly varying from pale 

 broT^n to gi'ey. 

 c'". Size large ; wing 4 inches or more . . enjihrof/astra, p. 347. 

 d'". Size smaller ; wing 3'4 inches or less. 

 a*. Underparts nearly the same sooty 



brown as the upper parts mysj P- 339. 



h*. Underparts, especially the belly, 

 paler than the upper parts. 

 a'. Second primary between the fifth 

 and seventh. 

 a^. Breast shaded with chestnut and 



white ^j/ia'?iir(«-!/s, p. 336. 



6*. Breast shaded with gi-ey and 



brown mesoleiica, p. 338. 



b^. Second primaiy between the 

 seventh and ninth. 

 c^. Wing-coverts and secondaries 



margined with duU white .... erythronota, p. 348. 

 d^. Wing-coverts and secondaries 



margined with bufiish brown . . hudysoni, p. 344. 



1. Ruticilla phoenicurus. 



Le Eossignol de muraille cendre, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 406 (17G0). 



Le Eouge-queue a collier, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 411 (1760). 



Le Eossignol de mm-aille, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 403 (1766); Buf. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. V. p. 170 (1778) ; Dmibent. PI. Enl no. 351 (1778). 

 Motacilla phcenicums, Linn. Syst. Kat. i. p. 335 (1766) ; Gniel. Syst. 



Nat. p. 987 (1788) ; Bechst. Natury. Beutschl. iv. p. 609 (1795). 

 Kedstart, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 421 (1783). 

 Sylvia phcenicums (Linn.), Lath. Gen. Syn. Svppl. i. p. 287 (1787) ; 



Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 5il (1790) ; Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 181 



p. 35 (1832, ;?«>•</«?) ; Nordm. Demid. Voy. Muss- merid. in. p. 135 



(i840) ; Werner, Atlas, Lisectiv. pi. 52 (1842). 

 Saxicola phrenicurus {Linn.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 188 (1816). 

 Ficedula phosnicurus (Linn.), Bote, Isis, 1822, p. 553 ; Hetigl. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 25 (1856). 

 Euticilla sylvestris, Brehm, Voy. Detdschl. p. 363 (1831)*. 

 Euticilla arborea, Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 363 (1831)*. 

 EuticiUa hortensis, Brehm, Voy. Deutschl. p. 364 (1831)*. 

 Phoenicura mm-aria, Swains. SfRich. Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 489 (1831). 

 Ficedula ruticilla, Fytm, Cat. Brit. B. p. 10 (1836). 

 Pho2nicm-a ruticiUa (Eyton), Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 95 (1837) ; Swaim. 



Clmsif.B.u.-p.2iO'(l837). 

 Euticilla phoenicura (Linn.), Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. 



p. 15 (1838) ; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 57 (1845) ; Gi-ay, Gen. B. 



* These names are quoted in the ' Isis ' for 1828. p. 1280 ; consequently they 

 must have been published earlier than 1831. The exact date of sucJi useless 

 syuonyms can be of no importance save to the ornithological pedant. 



