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white, with concealed bhickish bases ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dusky blackish, narrowly edged with ashy white, the 

 secondaries more broadly, the innermost long ones very broadly 

 edged with white along the outer web, with a subterminal shade of 

 brown ; tail-feathers black, the two centre ones edged with white, 

 the two outer ones white, broadly margined with blackish along 

 the inner web ; crown of head and nape, sides of neck, cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, throat, and fore neck black, leaving a broad frontal white 

 band; lores and feathers round the eye, extending beyond the 

 latter above the ear-coverts, white ; remainder of under surface 

 of body white, with an ashy shade on the breast, sides of the body, 

 and thighs ; the black feathers of the lower fore neck edged with 

 white where they adjoin the breast ; asillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white, slightly shaded with ashy ; quills dusky below, white 

 along the basal part of the inner web : " bill, legs, feet, and claws 

 black ; iris dark brown " (Sculh/). Total length 7'6 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 3-55, tail 3-6, tarsus 0-95. 



Old birds in winter plumage are remarkably like the summer 

 plumage, and have the same black ear-coverts ; the chin, however, 

 is white, as well as a good deal of the throat and the fore part of 

 the cheeks, so that a narrow black stripe is left between the white 

 lores aud white cheeks, running from the base of the bill to the 

 ear-coverts. It seems certain that old birds have the white chin- 

 spot for a very short time only, for in December specimens have 

 nearly got their full black chin. 



The female in breeding-plumage (Gilgit : Scully) exactly resembles 

 the male. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3"5, tail 3-3, 

 tarsus 0-9. Mr. Seebohm, however, has a female from Krasnojarsk, 

 shot on the 3rd of April, which has the head grey like the back, 

 and only slightly tinged with black. This is probably the first fuU 

 summer plumage of a bird of the previous year. 



Hab. Breeds in Western Siberia and Turkestan, as weU as in 

 Cashmere, occurring in winter in the plains of India. 



a. Ad. hiem. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. cJ ad. festiv.sk. 



d. 2 ad. sestiv.sk. 



e. (5' ad. testiv. sk. 



/. Ad. liiem. sk. 

 </. (S ad. aestiv. sk. 



h. cJ ad. ffistiv. sk. 

 i. $ ad. hiem. sk. 

 k. cj ad. hiem. sk. 



[Marocco *.] 

 Persia. 



Wernai, Turkestan, 

 Feb. 27. 



Kuldscha, Aug. 8. 



Kyzil Ai'chdi-chi river, 

 "Tm-kestan, Mav 18 

 (Dr. Imsch). 



Yarkand (Chapman). 



Shikarpore, Afghani- 

 stan ( Griffith). 



Kandahar, April 16. 



Kandahar, Jan. 2. 



Kandahar, Dec. 



R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.] 

 Chai'les Dai'win, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Dr. Severtzow [C.]. 



Dr. Severtzow [C.]. 

 Geogri'. Soc. Bremen. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 India Museum. 



Col. C. Swinhoe [P. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe [P. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe [P. 



* This bird was purchased some years ago from M. Boucard. The locality 

 requires confirmation. 



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