344 TTTEDID^. 



h%c'. S 2 ad.sk. Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). India Museum. 



d',e'. cJ ad.sk. Kamptee. Br. B. Hinde [P.J. 



f. (S ad. .sk. Saugor {Hooper). India Museum. 



'</'. (S ad. sk. Bootau {remherton). India Museum. 



h'. S ad. sk. Assam {Griffith). India Museum. 



i'. <S ad. sk. Mauiak Mountains, Sai- Bremen Geogr. Soc. 



san, Central Asia, May 



28, 1876 (O. Finsvh). 



k',I',m'. c? inim. Kasligar {Dr. Bellew). India Museum. 



n', o'. 2 imni. Kasligar (Br. Belleic). India Museum. 



p'. c^ ad. Kashgar {Dr. Belleic). India Museum. 



q'. d , r'. 2 ad. sk. Gilgit, Cashmere, April Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



1879. 



6. Ruticilla seminifa. 



Sylvia semirufa, Hempr. et Bhr. Sijmh. PJii/s., Ares, fol. bb (18.3.3). 

 Euticilla semirufa {Hemjn: et Bhr.), Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 28 (1854) ; 

 Hon/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 335 (18G9); Shelleij, B. Egypt, p. 84 

 C1872). 

 This species differs from the preceding, not only in being on an 

 average slightly smaller, but also in having a considerable quantity 

 of black on the under wing-coverts. It is scarcely more than a 

 local race, as many examples of the Eastern form also show some 

 black on the under wing-coverts. Length of wing — males 3-1 to 

 2-0 inches, females 3-06 to 2-62; tail 2-2 to 1-S, cnlmeu 0-6 to 0-52, 

 tarsus 0-91 to 0-9. 



The Palestine Eedstart breeds in Palestine and Syria, and has 

 occurred in Egypt. Nothing is known of its migrations. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Af ka, Lebanon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



h. S ad. sk. Below Aiuat, Lebanon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



c. Juv. sk. Aiuat, Lebanon {Tristram). F. Godmau and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



7. Ruticilla hodgsoni. 



Phcenicura reevesii, Gray, apud Bhjth, J. A. S. Be»g. xii. p. 9G3 



(1843). 

 Phcenicura iiiticilloides, Hodgs. MS. Drawings {in the Brit. Mits.) of 



B. of Nepal, Passeres, pi. Ixxv. figs. 1, la, nos. 403, 405, unde 

 Phcenicura ruticilla, Swains, apiid Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 



(1844). 

 Piuticilla reevesii (Gray), apud Gray, Cat. Mamm. 8,0. Kcjml Coll. 



Hodgs. p. 67 (1846) ; ffjJMf/ Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 180 (1840). 

 Ruticilla erythrogasbra (Giild.), ajtud Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 1G8 (1849). 

 Ruticilla hodgsoni, 3foore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 20, pi. Iviii. ; Horsf. ^ 



Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 303 (1854) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. 



^■c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 33 (1863) ; Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 138 



(1863) ; Gray, Han'd-l. B. i. p. 221. no. 3165 (1869) ; Sicinhoe, 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 358 ; Prjev. Powley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 175 (1877) ; 



David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 171 (1877) ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. 



Beng. xlvii. pt. 2, p. 18 (1878). 



In the adult male in full autumn ijlumage the general colour of 

 the upper parts is a dull slate-grey, shading into white on the fore- 



