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the black on the throat extends over the upper breast, and the rest 

 of the undcrparts are a uniform chestnut, richer in colour than in 

 the Western species, and not becoming paler on the centre of the 

 belly and under tail-coverts. In other respects there appears to be 

 little or no difference in the colour of the two species. Wings with 

 the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary about equal to the sixth, bastard primary 1-0 to 

 0-75 inch. Length of wing 3-6 to 3-2 inches (females 3-36 to 3'31), 

 tail 2-6 to 2-4, culmen O-Ol to 0-54, tarsus 1-0 to 0-9. 



The female is considerably darker, both on the upper and under 

 parts, than that of its near ally, and the under tail-coverts are more 

 rufous. In fall autumn plumage the difference between the two 

 species is less striking, as in both of them the white and black 

 feathers are tipped with brown. 



This species is subject to considerable variations. Extreme forms 

 have the entire head, neck, breast, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 

 jet-black. The black on the upper breast also sometimes extends 

 so far down as to cover the entire breast ; but it is never so much 

 developed as in R. erytliroprocta, and the axillaries are never black 

 as in that species. 



Males of the year have the upper parts coloiu'ed as in the female, 

 and the black on the throat partially concealed by the brown tips 

 to the feathers. Females of the year have broad pale edges to the 

 wing-coverts and innermost secondaries, and have the undcrparts 

 much browner. Youny in first plumage appear to be unknown. 



The Indian Redstart breeds in North China, Mongolia, and 

 Eastern Turkestan, wintering in ludia, Scinde, Baluchistan, and 

 South-east Persia. 



a. S ad. sk. Gishtigan - Bampusht, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Persian Baluchistan, 

 Feb. 28, 1872. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Pishin, Per?iau Balucbis- W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



tan, Feb. 8, 1873. 



c. (S ad. sk. Shikarpore, Afghanistan India Museum. (Type of 



{Griffith). R. phcenicuroides, Moore.) 



d. c? imm. sk. Koshuk Pass (Griffith). India ^luseum. 



e. c? ad. sk. Hyderabad, Sciude (Zh: India Museum. 



Gould). 



f. cJ ad. sk. Cashmere. Purchased. 



«/, h. S 2 fd. sk. Valley of Astor, Cash- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



more, Sept. 



i,k. d ad.; l,m. N.W. Himalayas, near Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



2 ad. sk. ; n, Dhurmsala. [!*•]• 



o. d 2 ad. sk. 



p. 2 ad. sk. Thibet. Earl of Gifford [P.]. 



'I, >: 6 2 ad. St. Behar. B. 11. Ilodirson, Esq. [P.]. 



s, t. S ad. sk. Behar. B. 11. Hodgson, Esq. [P.I. 



ti, V. S ad. ; ic. 2 Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.j. 



ad. sk. (Types o{ Phwnicura nijudensis, Hodgson, 



and R. nipalensis, Moore.) 



.V. c? ad. sk. Ka^hgar (Dr. Belkiv). India Museum. 



y, z, a'. (S ad. .sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



