1. MOTACILLA. 479 



5. Motacilla persica. (Plate V. figs. 5, 6.) 



? MotaciUa alba, Defl. Viagg. Pers. p. 348 (1865). 



? Motacilla dulchunensis, Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 107 (1879). 



Motacilla peisouata, var. persica, Blanf.East. I'ers. ii. p. 232 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy grey, rather blacker 

 oil the lower rump ; the upper tail-coverts black, edged with ashy, 

 the lateral ones externally white ; lesser wing-coverts light ashy 

 grey like the back ; median and greater coverts pure white ; bas- 

 tard-wing black, edged externally with white ; primarj-coverts white 

 along the inner and outer webs, dusky blackish in the centre ; quills 

 blackish, edged with white, broader on the secondaries, the inner- 

 most of which are browner and incline to grey on the outer web 

 before the white margin ; tail black, the two outer feathers white, 

 with a broad blackish margin along the inner web ; fore part of the 

 crown white, forming a broad frontal band ; lores, eyelid, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts white ; crown of head black, ex- 

 tending on to the hind neck ; throat and chest black, extending 

 in a narrow line behind the ear-coverts, so as to separate them from 

 the white patch on the sides of the neck, which is small and 

 obscured ; remainder of under surface pure white, the sides of the 

 body ashy grey ; thighs black, edged with white ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills light ashy 

 brown below, with a great deal of \Ahite along the inner web. Total 

 length 7"4 inches, culmen 0-G7, wing 3-65, tail 3'65, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage, but with the white 

 patch on the sides of the neck nearly obsolete and obscured with 

 black. Total length 7-3 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3-75, tail 3-8, 

 tarsus 1. 



This is an intermediate form between M.j^ersonata and M. alba, 

 and may be an intermixture of the two. The specimens figured 

 (/. c.) show a varying amount of white on the neck. (See also 

 Eadde, Orn. Cauc. pi. xii.) 



Hah. Persia. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Near Niriz, east of W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



SLiraz, June 4. (Type of species.) 



b, c: c? 2 ad. sk. Near Kaiman, S.E, W. T. Blanfoid, Esq. [C.]. 



Persia. 



6. Motacilla personata. (Plate V. figs. 3, 4.) 



Motacilla personata, Gotdd, B. Asia, iv. pi. 63 (1861) ; Blyth, His, 

 1865, p. 49; id. 1867, p. 29; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 311 ; Gratj, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 246, no. 3571 (1869) ; Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 219 ; 

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Hctdhj, 8. F. 1876, p. 150 ; Brooks, Sir. F. 1877, p. 472 ; Blanf. Sir. 

 F. 1877, p. 24C. ; Hvme, t. c. p. 329 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 177 ; 

 Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 51 ; &eebo/im, Ibis, 1878, p. 344 ; Brooks, 



