188 MrsciOAnuj!. 



7. Pratincola maura. 



Motaeilla maura, FuU. Rets. ii. Aiilianir, p. 708 ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 975. 

 Tschecantschiki, Lepechin, N. Comm. Petrop. xv. p. 487, pi. 25. tig. 3 ; 



id. Tai/eb. Beise Jims. Efichs, ii. p. 18G. 

 Moor Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. iv. p. 458. 

 Sylvia maura. Lath. Jnd. Orn. ii. p. 526. 

 Syhia tsuhecantschia, id. torn. cit. p. 552. 

 (Enanthe maura, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 428. 

 Saxicola rubicola {nee L.), Frank!. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 119; Sykes, 



P. Z. S. 18:52, p. 91 ; Temm. Sr Schl. Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 58; 



Middcnd. Pris. Sibir. p. 174 ; Schrenek, lieis. Amurlande, p. 358 ; 



Raddc, Sihir. Peis. ii. p. 247. 

 Saxicola saturatior, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83. 

 Pratincola indica, Blyth, J. A. S'. B. xvi. p. 129; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. 8. B. p. 170 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 ; GuuU, B. Asia, pt. xv. 

 Jerd. B. Jnd. ii. p. 124 ; Graif, JJand-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3283 

 Stvinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 3fi0; Cock i<>- Marsh, Str. F. 1873, p. 355 

 Lloyd, Jbis, 1873, p. 411 ; Ball, S. F. 1874, p. 413; Blyth 4- Wold 



B. Bitrm. p. 102 ; Brooks, S. F. 1875, p. 238 ; Butler, t. e. p. 475 

 Sewrfz. t. c. p. 429 ; Scidly, S. F. 1870, p. 142 ; Fairb. t. c. p. 259 

 Brooks, t. c. p. 274 ; Ar7nstr. t. c. p. 327 ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i. p. 145 ; Inglis, S. F. 1877, p. 36 ; Przew. in Rowley, 

 Orn. il//sc. part vi. p. 185 ; David ^ Oustal. Ois. Chine, ip. 167; 

 JJume f Davison, S. F. 1878, p. 334. 



Saxicola indica, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 8. - 



Pratincola saturatior, Jlorsf. .^- M., Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 285. 



Pratincola sybilla, Horsf. k Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.L Co. i. p. 286 



(nee Linn.). 

 Saxicola rubicola, var. hempricbii, i2«(?rf(». Sib. R. ii. p. 247, pi. 9. fig. 2. 

 Pratincola robusta, Tristr. Jbis, 1870, p. 497 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1876, 



p. 274 ; JIume, Str. F. 1877, p. 131, et 1878, p. 335. 

 Pratincola rubicola sybilla, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 340 {nee 



L.). 

 Pratincola pastor, Blanf. Geol. Sf- Zool. Aby---s. p. 364 {nee Voigt) ; 



Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 323. 

 Pratincola rubicola, pt., Sex^ertz. Tiirkest. Jevotn. p. 65 ; Dresser, B. 



Eur. parts 23, 24 ; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 337 ; Htane, Nests and Eggs 



Jnd. B. p. 316 ; Waldcn in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 102 ; Seebohm ^ 



Brown, Jbis, 1876, p. 216. 

 Pratincola albosuperciliari.?, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 307. 

 Pratincola rubetra, Marsh, Str. F. 1875, p. 330 {lapsu). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumcuje (Yen-e-say Valley, East Siberia, 

 lat. 66^°, June 22, 1877). General colour above jet-black, with a 

 few remains of sandy edgings to tbo scapulars and dorsal plumes ; 

 some of the scapulars ti])ped with white ; wings black, the quills 

 browner, with obsolete sandy-brown margins to the wing-coverts 

 and secondaries ; a large white wing-patch, formed of the inner, 

 median, and greater coverts and the bases to the inner secondaries; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail-feathers black, white 

 at the extreme base ; sides of face and throat black like the head ; 

 sides of neck white, flanking the sides of the lower throat and of 

 the upper breast ; fore neck and chest orange-rufous ; breast, abdo- 

 men, sides of body, and under tail-coveits white, with a very faint 



