11. SAXICOrA, 



401 



in colour. It is not kno^rn that birds of the year differ from 

 juliilts. Young in Jirst idumaije have obscure transverse dark ter- 

 minal bars and pale centres to most of the feathers of the upper and 

 underparts. 



The Isabelline Chat breeds in Asia Minor and South Russia, 

 migrating in winter to Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia, in all three of 

 which countries it is also a resident bird, as well as in Palestine. 

 Eastwards it is a resident iu Persia, and a summer visitor to Turkes- 

 tan and Southern Siberia to the Pacific. It winters in Scinde and 

 North-west India, and is a summer visitor to South-east Mongolia, 

 Eastern Thibet, and North China. 



a. Ad. st, 



b. Ad. St. 



'■) <^- c? 2 ad. sk. 



e. 5 ad. sk. 



f. (S ad. sk. 



g. Ad. sk. 



h, i. 2 ad. sk. 

 Ji,l. 6 9. ad. sk. 

 m. cS ad. sk. 



n, 0. (S 2 ^^- s^- 



p. 2 ad. sk. 

 q. 2 ad. sk. 



r. 2 ad. sk. 



s, t. Ad. sk. 

 M, )'. Ad. sk. 

 tv. 2 '"^'l- sk. 



.?•, »/. Ad. sk. 

 s. '2 ad. sk. 

 «'. cf ad. sk. 



Abyssinia. 



Abvssiuia. 



Zoiilla, Jan. 23, 18G8. 



Senate, Tigre. 



Adigrat, Tigre, April 2, 



1868. 

 Nubia (3fus. Holm.). 



Eg.TPt- 



Beersheba, Palestine. 



Beevsheba, Palestine, Feb. 



3,18G4:{Trisf:ratn). 

 Anascba, Tam-us, Asia 



Minor, March 1870 



(C. G. Dmiford). 

 Shiraz, Persia, 4750 feet. 

 Persian Baluchistan, I'eb. 



10, 1872. 

 Gwadar, Baluchistan, 



December 1871. 

 Afghanistan (Griffith). 

 Scinde [Dr. Gould). 

 N.W. India. 



Be bar. 



Cashmere {Dr. Bellew). 

 Gilgit, Cashmere, April 

 22, 1880. 



J. Gould, Esq. 



Dr. RUppell [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



W. T. Blanford,P:sq. IC.]. 



[CI. 

 [C.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 Dr. Leith Adams [P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 F. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 F. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



Col. St. John [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



32. Saxicola bottae. 



Saxicola isabellina, liiipp. apitd Ilorsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mits. E.I. 



Co. p. 287 (1854, d' j. 

 Saxicola botta>, Bmmp. Compt. Bend, xxxviii. p. 7 (1854, S) '- Gray, 



Hatid-l. B. i. p. 220. no. .'2241 (iWiO, J); HcmiL Oni. X.O.-Afr. 



i. p. ;Jo3 0800, cJ); Blanf. <^- Dresser, I\ Z. S. 1874, p. 2:J0, 



pi. xxxvi. tig. 1 (d"). 

 Saxicola ferruginea, Heiu/l. St/si. Uehers. p. 26(1850, ,£). 

 Saxicola intermedia, Ilewjl. Syst. Uehers. p. 20 (18-56, 2) descr. 



nulla). 

 Saxicola leucorhoides, Ileugl. Journ. Orn. 1862, p. 201 ( 2 . descr. 



ntdla, nee Giierin). 

 Saxicola hougliui, Firn^ch Sf Hartl., fide Hewjl. Orn. K.O.-Afr. i. 



p. .340 (1800, 2 ) ; (^>-"y, Hand-l. B. i. p. 220. no. 3247 (1800', 2 ) ; 

 VOL. V. 2d 



