532 



ALAuniDj:. 



male. Total length 6 inches, culmeii 0-6, wing 4-2, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. From Asia Minor to the Caucasus and through Persia to 

 Ferghana and Afghanistan, and thence to the Gilgit district. 



a. (S ad. sk. Taurus, Asia Minor, April 30 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. G. Danford). 

 6. c? ad. sk. Taurus, April .30 (C. r?. D.). Seebohm Coll. 



c, d. (S ad. sk. Erzeroum {K. E. Abbott). Zoological Society. 



e-g. S ad. sk. Erzeroum. Gould Coll. 



(Types of species.) 

 h. r7 ad. hiem. sk. Kislovodsk, Cis-Causasia. St. Petersburg Mus. 



_[E.]. 

 i. Ad. hiem. sk. Near Isfahan, Persia, Sept. Sir 0. St. John [C.]. 

 k, I. (5 5 ad. sk. Kanaka, S.S.E. of Karman, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



S.E. Persia, May '2. [C.]. 



m, n. S 2 ad. sk. Candahar, Jan. 25. Colonel Swinhoe 



[P.]. 

 o, p. S ? ad. sk. Gilgit, 5000 feet, March. Colonel Biddulph 



[C.]. 

 q, r, s. cJ ; ?;. ? Gilgit, Feb. March (J. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. iiidduliih). 



n. fS juv. sk. Chashi, Yassin, 10,500 feet, Colonel Biddulph 



Aug. [C.]. 



V. Imm. sk. Wakhan, April 29 ( /. Bid- Hume Coll. 



du/i)h). 

 w, .r. c? 2 ad. sk. Ferghana, April, Nov. Dr. Severtzo\y [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Otocorys bicornis *. 



Otocor)'x bilopha (wee 7".), Licht. Nomeucl. Av. p. 38 (1854). 

 Otocorys penicillata, Tristr. Ibis, 1866, p. 288 ; id. Faun. 8f Flor. 

 Paled, p. 81 (1884). 



Adult male. Similar to 0. 2ienicillata,'bvii much paler and more 

 vinaccous, the vinous shade extending over the hack, which is almost 

 uniform. Total length 7-7"2 inches, culmen 0"6o-0*7, wing 4*4- 

 4-5, tail 2-7-2-9, tarsus O-S-O-G. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the black band 

 on the crown, which is streaked with blackish brown like the back. 

 Total length 6-5-7 inches, culmen 0'65-0-7, wing 4-4"l, tail 2*5- 

 2-65, tarsus 0-8-0-So. 



Hah. Palestine and Syria. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 

 6, c. (5 2 ad. sk. 

 d, e. c? 2 ad. sk. 



f,ff. d 2 ad.sk. 



Syria {Henijmch Sf Ehrenherg). 



Top of Mt. Elermon. 



Top of Mt. Hermon, June 



{H. JJ. T.). 

 Top of Mt. Ilermon, June 



{H. B. T.). 



Shelley Coll. 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Salviu-Gcdman Coll. 



* I adopt Hempricb's name for tbis race, although it lias never been piib- 

 lisbed, as far as I can find. It bas generally been added as a synonym to 0. 

 bilopha; but a specimen of Hempricb's own collecting, now in tbe Sbelley 

 collection, sbows tbat bis 0. bicor7iis belongs to tbe group of 0. penicillata. 



