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summer plumage, but the pale edges to the wing-eovcrts are a little 

 more distinct ; throat more hoary and obscuring the rufous ; the 

 rufous scapulars also obscured by ashy margins to the feathers : 

 " bill pink or brownish pink ; legs and feet fleshy pink or yellowish 

 pink ; claws pale brown. Length 6 - 62-6"78, tail from vent 2 , 96-3 - l" 

 (A. O. Hume). 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Duller in colour than the male, 

 especially on the under surface of the body, which is pale vinous 

 chestnut, with ashy edges to the feathers ; ear-coverts brown, instead 

 of ashy, and the head also not so distinctly grey : " bill fleshy brown ; 

 legs and feet yellowish brown " (J£. A. Butler). Total length 5 - 6 

 inches, culmen 045, wing £ - 95, tail 2-5, taisus OT5. 



An adult female shot in November at Ajmere by Mr. Hume had 

 the " bill, legs, and feet fleshy pink ; iris brown."' 



The young birds in winter plumage are much browner than the 

 adult, the head being a little more dusky than the back, the wholo 

 upper surface being very distinctly streaked with blackish, but 

 showing no chestnut on the scapulars ; wing-coverts Iroadly edged 

 with pale rufous, the greater series with creamy white ; ear-coverts 

 reddish brown ; under surface of body isabelline, the rufous of the full 

 plumage showing more or less distinctly ; breast with narrow brown 

 shaft-streaks : " bill pink, fleshy pink, or faintly brownish pink, 

 dusky at the tip; legs and feet fleshy pink, brownish on the joints, 

 or pinkish fleshy orange ; iris brown. Length 6--i6-6 , 7'2, tail from 

 vent 2-75-3-0 " (A. 0. Hume). 



Hah. From the Caucasus throughout Persia, to Turkestan and 

 Afghanistan, wintering in the plains of Western India. Said to have 

 occurred near Canton in China (cf. Holdsw. I. c), but this locality 

 extremely doubtful. 



a. J ad. sk. 

 6. $ ad.sk. 



c. d ad. sk. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



e. $ ad. sk. 



f. g. J 2 ad. ^. 



h. Ad. sk. 

 i. Ad. sk. 



k, I. cJad. sk. 



m. tf ad. ak. 

 n. (5 ad. sk. 

 ",]>■ d 2 ad.; q. 



<$ imm. sk. 

 r,,s. [<5 ] imm. sk. 



Saisau, Turkestan, May 29 



(Dr. Finsch). 

 Elburz Mountains, Persia, 



Aug. 17. 

 Kanaka, S.E. of Karman, 



S.E. Persia, May 2nd. 

 Deligirdii, plateau north of 



Shiraz, June 29, 1872 



( JF. T. Blanford). 

 Ispidan, east of Bampur, 



Baluchistan, March MO. 

 Kambao, W. Afghanistan, 



May 1, 1885. 

 Afghanistan (Griffith). 

 Candahar. 

 Candahar, April 1879 



(Sir O. St. John). 

 Khojak, Afghanistan, April 29. 

 Gatai, Afghanistan, April 4. 

 Khojak, Sept. 1881 (Sir 0. St. 



Jo/in). 

 Nal, Khelat, April 1879 



{<>. '/'. Duke). 



Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 



W.T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Hume Coll. 



W.T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Dr. Aitchison [C.]. 



India Museum. 

 Capt. llutton [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



