4. ^GITHALtrS. 69 



about 4-2 inches, culmen 0-40, wiug 2-20-2-30, tail l-90-l-9o, 

 tarsus 0-58-U-()0. 



Adult female. Occiput and nape dull isabelline ; forehead, ear- 

 coverts, and region round the eye black as in the male. 



Ohs. The amount of chestnut colour on the crown and hind neck 

 varies greatlj', and it does not extend all over these parts before the 

 bird is quite adult. In the British Museum is a male specimen, 

 shot in April near Astrachan, which has the greater part of the 

 crown and the sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts deep chestnut- 

 brown, each feather slightly tipped with white, but the nape and 

 hind neck are almost white. 



Hah. Confined to the delta of the Wolga. 



a. S ad. sk. Astrachan, April. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



4. iEgitlialus macronyx. 



jEgithakis macronyx, Severtz. Turk. Jevotn. p. 137, pi. 9. fig. 8, ad. c? 



in irinter (1873): I)re.'<se); Ibis, 187G, p. 175. 

 ^githalus rutilans, Severtz. Turk. Jevvtti. p. 137 (1873) ; Dresser, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 175. 

 ^githalus rutilans, var. cucidlata, Severtz. op. cit. pi. 9. fig. 6, ad. c? 



in winter (1873). 

 ^githalus rutilans, var. pectoralis, Severtz. loc. cit. fig. 7, ad. <S in 



luinter (1873). 



" The black on the head covers the forehead, sides of the 

 head, and fore parts and sides of the crown ; centre of the crown, 

 nape, and hind neck pale brownish yeUow, this colour being 

 separated from the pure brown of the back by a narrow light chest- 

 nut band ; throat greyish white ; margins of the quills not whitish, 

 but pale brownish ; beak nearly black ; legs plumbeous." {Severtz. 

 in Dresser's Notes.) The following description is taken from speci- 

 mens in ilr. Seebohm's collection : — • 



Adult male. Nearest allied to ^. coronatus. Chin, throat and sides 

 of neck, and fore neck blackish grey ; rest of i;nderparts pale 

 ochraceous, but distinctly more richly coloured than in JE.pendulinus 

 or ^. coronatus ; claws, and especially the hind toe with its claw, 

 decidedly stronger than these parts in the allied species. Total 

 length 4 inches. 



The _?/oifn(/ birds of JE. macronyx and ^. coronatus much resemble 

 the young ones of .^. pendidinus. 

 liab. North-western Turkestan, 



5. .Egithalus flammiceps. 



^githalus flammiceps. Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 153; Blt/f/i, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc. p. 104 : Bp. C. A. i. p. 231 ; Bhjth, in Jard. Contr. 

 Orn. 1851, p. 52; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 234, no. 3427. 



