538 FRIXGri,LIDJ5. 



Buscarla cia, Bp. Rev. et May. <le Zool. 1857, p. 102. 

 flvlrespiza cia, Newton in List B. Eur. Bias. p. IS (18(32) ; Boyd. B. 

 Cauc. p. 71 (1879). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above rufesceut 

 brown, streaked with mesial centres of black, tbe featbers of the 

 mantle with paler fulvesceut edges ; rump uniform cinnamon-rufous; 

 upper tail-coverts paie rufous-brown with black shaft- streaks ; lesser 

 wing-coverts slaty blue ; median series blackish, edged with ashy 

 and tipped with creamy buff, forming a narrow wing-bar ; greater 

 coverts blackish, edged with pale rufous aud slightly tipped with 

 creamy buff; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, edged 

 with ashy grey; quills blackish, the primaries margined with ashy 

 whitisb, the secondaries with pale rufous, more broadly on the inner 

 ones, which are pale rufous also on the inner web like the inner 

 greater coverts ; middle tail-feathers pale rufous, black in the centre, 

 the remainder blackish, edged with sandy rufous, the penultimate 

 feather with a large wedge-shaped mark of white at the end of the 

 inner web, larger on the outermost feather, which is also margined 

 externally with white ; crown of head pale bluish grey, with a broad 

 band of black along either side of the crown ; over the eye a streak 

 of ashy white from the base of the forehead to above the ear- 

 coverts ; lores and eyelid black, continued into a black streak along 

 tbe upper margin of the ear-coverts, which are ashy whitish, sepa- 

 rated from the throat by a streak of black, which runs behind the 

 ear-coverts and joins the other black line ; sides of neck bluish grey, 

 whitish where it touches the black line behind the ear-coverts ; 

 throat and chest pale bluish grey ; remainder of under surface of 

 body pale cinnamon-rufous, washed with isabelline, including the 

 thighs and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 ashy whitish ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web ; bill 

 dull lead-colour ; feet yellowish brown, the toes darker ; iris dark 

 brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-3, tail 2*8, 

 tarsus - 75. 



In the height of the breeding-season, when the plumage becomes 

 abraded, the black bands on the crown and on the sides of the face 

 are very strongly developed, and the corresponding white bands are 

 also more distinctly indicated ; the ashy colour of the throat and 

 chest is much paler, the former becoming almost whitish. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Paler than the adult male, 

 and not having the grey on the head so pure, all being slightly 

 washed with brown ; ear-coverts brown, ashy white under the eye ; 

 loral stripe and cheek-stripe dull blackish aud not so distinct as in 

 the male ; throat and chest very pale bluish ashy, slightly washed 

 with brown ; remainder of under surface of body very pale cinnamon- 

 rufous, distinctly isabelline on the abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts. Total length 6 inches, culmen - 45, wing3 - 05, tail 2-75, 

 tarsus - 7. 



Mr. Seebohm's collection 'contains two females which can scarcely 

 be distinguished from adult males, and have the facial markings 

 equally well developed. 



