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2. Pratincola macrorhyncha. 



Pratiucola rubetraoides, Jerd. B. Lid. iii. Ajijy. p. 872 {ex Jmneson, 

 MS.; descr. nidld); Dresser, B. Eur. parts 23, 24 {sub P. 

 rubetra) ; Htime, Sir. F. 1877, p. 239. 



Pratincola rubetra, Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 355, et 1871, p. 28 {nee L.). 



Pratincola macrorhyncha, Sioliezka, J. A. S. B. xli. p. 238 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 187G, p. 40, 1877, pp. 131, 241, 244, 1878, p. 53. 



Pratincola jamesoni, Hume, 8tr. F. 1877, p. 239 {nom. emend.). 



Adult male. A broad stripe over the eyes and over the greater 

 portion of the ear-coverts white, with a slight huffy tinge ; lower 

 part of the lores dusky ; chin, throat, and entire lower parts, in- 

 cluding lower tail-coverts and tibial x^lumes, white with a yellowish 

 tinge, and a very feeble rufescent tinge on breast and flanks ; wing- 

 lining and axillarios pure white, the former slightly mottled with 

 dusky ; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, back, and scapulars light 

 sandy buff, striated longitudinally with hair-brown ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts white, most of the featliers tinged towards their tips 

 with pale rusty buff ; primaries and secondaries hair-brown , mar- 

 gined on the outer webs with light buff and tipped with yellowish 

 white, the primaries more narrowly, the secondaries more broadly ; 

 tertiary greater coverts, or, perhaps I should call them, lower sca- 

 pulars, white ; tertiaries and greater and median secondary coverts 

 deep brown, broadly margined with pale, more or less rufescent 

 buff; entire visible portion of lesser coverts pale sandy buff; edge 

 of wing and outer webs of earlier gxeater primary-coverts pure 

 white ; tail hair-brown, all the feathers margined on the outer 

 webs with sandy buff or light yellowish brown, the outer web of 

 the outermost feather almost entirely of this colour ; all the feathers, 

 except the central pair, with almost the entire inner webs white ; 

 the outermost pair have an irregular subterminal brown band from 

 0*2 to 0"3 inch wide on this web, but the rest have only a small 

 patch of brown near the shaft close to the tip, the pair next the 

 centre having the patch rather larger : there are traces of a dark 

 streak from the base of the lower mandible down either side of the 

 throat, expanding on the sides of the breast ; doubtless in breeding- 

 plumage this streak and patch are black or blackish : "• bill and feet 

 black ; iris brown." Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3, 

 tail 2-12, tarsus 0-97. {Hume.) 



Breedhvj-^lumage. Two or three of both my males and females 

 have the lower parts of the lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and entire 

 sides of the throat (leaving only a narrow pure white stripe down 

 the centre of the throat) black, the feathers only a little tipped 

 with pale sandy, which doubtless in the breeding-season entirely 

 disappears ; also the lesser and median and the secondary greater 

 wing-coverts and the winglet have become nearly black, only very 

 narrowly edged with sandy buff, which colour also seems in the 

 course of disappearing. (Hiimr.) 



Adult female in winter plumage. Similar to the male but smaller. 



