1. MOTACILLA. 531 



<. [ c? J ad. sk. Senafe, March 4. 



Ad. sk. Adigrat, April 8. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.l. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.1. 



i;tv. 2 ad.; x. $ ZouUa, Aimesley Bay, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C. 



juv. sk. Jan. 



y. 2 ad. sk. Lake Ashangi, May 4. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



s. 5 ad. sk. Transvaal (T. Ayres), Sharpe Collection. 



a'. (5 ad. sk. Caucasus, April 9. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



b'. cJ ad. sk. Shiraz, June. Sir O. St. John [C.J. 



c'. c? ad. sk. Jalk, Baluchistan, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



March 17. 



d'-g'. Ad. sk. Afghanistan {Griffith). India Museum. 



h, i'. (S ad. sk. Candahar, Feb. Col. C. Swinhoe [P.]. 



k'-m'. cj'ad.; «'-;•'. Candahar, March. Col. C. Swinhoe [P.], 



2 ad. sk. 



s'. 2 ^d. sk. Candahar, AprU. Col. C. Swinhoe [P.]. 



t', u' . Imm. sk. Scinde (Dr. Gould). India Museum. 



v'. Ad. ; to'. Juv. sk. Cashmere. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



x', y'j z'. Ad. sk. N.W. India. Gould Collection. 



a, (i. cS ad. sk. Mhow, Dec. 31. Col. C. Swinhoe [P.]. 



y. Ad. sk. Deccan {Sykes). India Museum. (Type of 



M. melanocephala, Sykes.) 



6. Ad. sk. [India.] Gould Collection. 



Subsp. a. Motacilla paradoxa. (Plate VIII. fig. 5.*) 



Budytes paradoxus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 142 (185-5). 



MotaciUa kaleniczeukii (iwn Krynic.ki), Blasius in NacJitr. Naum. 



Vcig. Deutsckl. p. 126 (1860) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 247, no. 3588 



(1869) ; Hotneyer, J.f. O. 1878, p. 129. 

 Motacilla flava kaleniczenkii, Finsch, Verh. z.-b. Oes. Wien, 1879, p. 63. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, rather brighter on 

 the lower back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts brown with j-ellow 

 edges ; median and greater coverts dark brown, broadlj- tipped with 

 pale yellow ; bastard-wing blackish brown ; primary-coverts and 

 quills brown, edged with paler olive-yellow, yellowish white on the 

 secondaries, which have broader margins ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive-yellow, the two outer ones 

 white with an oblique black mark along the inner web ; head, hind 

 neck, and sides of the latter black, as well as the lores, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts, the latter with a small patch of 

 white on their anterior portion ; over the eye a distinct line of 

 white ; chin and a line along the cheeks white ; remainder of under 

 surface of body bright yellow, paler on the under tail-coverts ; 

 thighs ashy white ; axillaries yellow ; under wing-coverts white, 

 washed with yellow, with ashy bases ; quiUs ashy brown below, 

 whitish along the inner web. Total length 6 inches, ctilmen 0-5, 

 wing 3'06, tail 2"75, tarsus O-O. 



Hah. From Hungary and Dalmatia to South Eussia and the 

 Crimea as far as long. 47° E. 



a. S ad. sk. Karakal, near Sergiopol, Geogr. Societv of Bremen. 



May 8 (Dr. Finsch). 



* Marked M, JcaJeniczemkii on the Plate by error. 



