9. EOTICILLA. 349 



blvie centres ; a narrow lino at the base of the upper mandible, the 

 lores, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck are black, each feather more 

 or less indistinctly tipped with brown ; the back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts are bright chestnut, each feather of the back fringed 

 with brown ; the scapulars are black, similarly fringed ; quills 

 brown, the innermost secondaries dark brown, the outside webs 

 narrowly margined with white ; primarj'-coverts white, broadly 

 tipped with dark brown ; greater wing-coverts dark brown, narrowly 

 tipped with white ; median wiug-coverts white ; lesser wing-coverts 

 brown ; tail bright chestnut, except the two centre feathers and the 

 terminal half of the outer web of the outside feather on each side, 

 which are dark brown, occasionally mixed with bright chestnut. 

 Chin, throat, breast, and flanks bright chestnut, each feather more 

 or less obscurely tipped with pale bufRsh brown, which is the colour 

 of the belly ; under tail-coverts with a more distinct shade of 

 chestnut ; axillarics and under wing-coverts white ; inner margin of 

 quills buffisli brown. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. Wing with 

 the fourth and fifth i^rimaries nearly equal and longest, second 

 primary intermediate in length between the seventh and eighth, 

 bastard primary 1"1 to 1-0 inch. Length of wing 3-5 to 3'4 inches, 

 tail 2-85 to 2-75, culmen 0*6 to 0-46, tarsus 1*0 to 0"9. 



In the female the wings, rump, tail, and upper and under tail- 

 coverts are coloured as in the male. The rest of the plumage is an 

 almost uniform greyish brown, paler on the chin and centre of belly. 

 In spring the brown edges to the feathers are most of them cast, 

 leaving the head and nape greyish white, mottled with brown, and 

 the back, throat, and breast rich chestnut, only streaked here and 

 there with pale brown. Birds of the year and young in first 

 plumage appear to be unknown. 



Eversmann's Hedstart breeds in the pine- and birch-districts of 

 Turkestan, South-western Mongolia, and South-eastern Siberia. In 

 winter it descends into the valleys, and has been obtained in the 

 North-western Himalayas, South Persia, and Eastern Asia Minor. 



a. c? ad. sk. Tashkend, March 20, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Severtzoff). 



b. c? ad. sk. Near Taslikend, Nov. 18, India Museum. 



1874. 



c. c? ad. sk. Shiraz, Persia, Nov. 1870. Col. St. John [C.l. 



d. (J ad. sk. Khist, Persia, Jan. 1871. Col. St. John [C.]. 



^>f- d $ ad. sk. Pusliut, Afghanistan India Museum. (Types 



(Griffilh). oi li. rufoyularis, Moore.) 



g. S ad. sk. N.^\'. India. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



h. (S ,i, k. 5 ad. sk. Kashgar {Dr. Bellew). India Museum. 



I. d , m. $ ad. sk. Gilgit, Cashmere, Jan. 19, Dr. J. Scully fP.! 

 1880. 



11. Rutlcilla frontalis. 



Phrenicura fi-ontalis, Viqors, P. Z. S. 18:31, p. 172; Gould, Cent. B. 



IlimaL M. pi. xxvi. fig. 1 (1832) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 190 



(1842). 

 Ruticilla melanura, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 26-5. 

 Phosnicura tricolor, Hodgs. MS. Draiuings {in the Brit. Mus.) of B. 



