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head and into bri2;lit chestnut on the rump and upper tail-coverts; 

 a narrow line at the base of the upper mandible, the loies, feathers 

 beliiiid the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, cbin, and throat black ; quills 

 and primary-coverts brown ; a white patch on the wing, formed by 

 the basal half of the outer webs of tho innermost and two or three 

 adjoining secondaries being white ; greater, median, and lesser 

 wing-coverts dark brown, the outside webs margined with slate- 

 grey ; tail bright chestnut, the two central feathers more or less 

 brown ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, breast, belly, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts bright chestnut. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. 

 Wings with the fourth and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary equal in length to the eighth or ninth, bastard 

 primary 1-0 to 0-91 inch. Length of wing 3-29 to 3-U5, tail 2-85 

 to 2-6, culmen 0-6 to 0-56, tarsus 1-0 to 0-9. 



In the adult female in full autumn plumage the general colour of 

 the upper and under parts, including the wings, is greyish brown, 

 paler on the chin, axillaries, and under wing-coverts, shading into 

 nearly white on the centre of the belly, and into very pale chestnut 

 on the under tail-coverts, and into rich chestnut on the upper taU- 

 coverts. In spying little change takes place, except that the white 

 on the forehead of the male becomes of somewhat larger extent. It 

 is not known that birds of the year differ from adults. Young in 

 first plumar/e appear to be luiknown. 



Hodgson's Kedstart breeds in the mountains of Western China, 

 and winters in the valleys of the Himalayas from Xepal to Assam. 



a. c? ad. sk. India {As. Soc.^. India Museiun. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Pusliut, Afghanistan India Museum. 



{Griffith). 



c. S ad. ; d, e. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 2 ad. sk. (Tvpes of Plioenicura ruticUloides, Hodgs?) 



f, (/• 6 ; h- 5 Nepal. ' B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. 



i. J ad. ; h, I. Nepal {Hodgson). India ^luseum. 



$ ad. sk. (Types of Ruticilla hodgsoni, Moore.) 



m, n. (S $ ad. sk. Bootan {Vend)erton). India Museum. 



0. (S ad. sk. Assam {McClelland). India Museum. 



8. Ruticilla aiu'orea. 



Daurian Warbler, Lath. Gen. Sgn. ii. pt. 2, p. 460 (1783). 



Motacilla aurorea, Gmel. Sgst. JVat. i. p. 970 (1788, e.v Lath.) ; Pall. 

 Meis. Buss. Beichs, iii. p. G9o (1770) ; id. Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. (. 

 p. 477 (1811) ; Kittl. Kiipf. Nat. Vog. pi. xxvi. fig. 1 (1832). 



Sylvia aurorea (Gmel.), Lath. Ind. Oni. ii. p. .527 (1790). 



Sylvia (Phreniciu-a) reevesii, Grag, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 1. 



Pliceiiicura reevesii (Grag), McCMland, P. Z. S. 18."/o, p. 161. 



Phojnioiira leucoptera. lilgth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. !)02 (1843). 



Kuticilla leucoptera {Blg'th), Grai/, Gen. 'B. i. p. 180 (1846) • Bhith 

 J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134 (1847) : id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p 168 

 (1849) ; Bp. Con^p. i. p. 290 (1850) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854 p 28 • 

 Grag, Hand-l. B. i. -p. 221. no. 3160 {I8m). ' 



Ruticilla aurorea (Gmel.), Grag, Gen. B. i. p. 180 (1846) : Bp. 



