314 TIME1IIDJ5. 



a. Light-hreasted Palestine form, 

 i. cS ad. sk. Nalir el Kelb. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



5. Cinclus leucogaster. 



Sturnus cinclus, var., Pallas. Zoogr. Basso- Asiaf. i. p. 426 (1811). 

 Cinclus leucocraster, Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 252 (1850) ; Brandt in Tchi- 



hatcheff's Voy. Sc. Altai, p. 418 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xii. (1860) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1867, p. 117 ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn.-p. 66; Dresser, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 175 ; Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 51. 

 Hvdrobata leucogastra, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 267, no. 3907 



■(1869). 



Achdt mcde. General colour above brown, extending down the 

 whole back, but much paler on the head and neck, especially the 

 sides of the latter ; wing-coverts like the back, the median series 

 with narrow whitish margins ; primary and greater coverts, as well 

 as the quills, dark slaty grey, blackish brown on the inner webs ; 

 upper tail-coverts dark slaty grey, as also the tail-feathers, which 

 are dusky brown on the inner webs ; above and below the eye a 

 slight spot of white ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts brown ; 

 cheeks and entire under surface of body white, excepting on the 

 sides of the lower breast and flanks, which are dark sepia-brown ; 

 under tail-coverts dai'k brown, with whity-brown tips ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries dark sepia-brown, with slightly indicated 

 whitish tips ; quills ashy brown below. Total length 7"3 inches, 

 culmen 0-95, wing 3-65, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-15. 



The White-bellied Dipper appears to be plentiful in Central Asia, 

 inhabiting the district of the Upper Ob, and extending throughout 

 Turkestan into the countries north of Cashmere. Without aiBrm- 

 ing that the true C. leucogaster extends into the Baikal region 

 and the Ten-e-say, it is certain that manj' of the birds shot in 

 those districts approach as much to the present species as the)' do 

 to C. cashmeriensis. They always preserve, however, the dusky 

 belly of the latter to a great extent, and thus are not strictly 

 identical with Turkestan specimens. 



a. (S ad. sk. Tui-kestan (Severtzoff). F. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.], 



b. (S ad. sk. Turkestan (Severtzoff). Gould Collection. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Lepsa, Turkestan, May 13 Geogr. Society of Bremen. 



(Dr. O. Finsch). 



d. 5 ad. sk. Mountains west of Kashgar. Major J. Biddulph [C.]. 



6. Cinclus asiatictis. 



. Cinclus asiaticus, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 174 (1831) ; 

 Goidd, B. Asia, pt. xii. (1860) ; Salv. Ibis, 1867, p. 120; Blanf. J. 



A. S. Beny. xii. p. 48 ; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 313 ; Severtz. Turkest. 

 Jevotn. p. 66 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 1 75 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 94 ; 

 Si-ully. Str.F. \^79, pp. 281, 365, 367 ; id. Ibis, 1881, p. 437. 



Cinclus pallasi, Tiyors, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 54; Gotdd, Cent. Himal. 



B. pi. 24 (1832) ; Hodgs. Icon. ined. Brit. Mus., Passeres, pis. 136, 



