444 ANATLD^. 



Thes. Orn. ii. p. 467 (1872) ; Crommel. Arch. Need. x. p. 175 

 (1875) (Netherlands). 

 Erimistura (errors?) leucocephala, Beffl. 8r Gerhe, Orn. Eur. ii. 

 p. 5G6 (1867). 



Adult male. Crown black ; forehead, sides of the head, including 

 the space above the eye, chin and nape pure white; below this 

 white the neck aU round is black ; lower neck and breast chestnut- 

 red, with narrow blackish bars ; back, scapulars, sides, and flanks 

 reddish chestnut, more or less huffish, and finely and irregularly 

 vermiculated with blackish ; upper tail-coverts deep chestnut ; 

 underparts, below the breast, reddish huffy white ; wings brown- 

 grey, the wing-coverts and secondaries finely vermiculated with 

 huffy white ; under wing-coverts grey, the central ones whitish ; 

 axillaries white ; tail blackish : " biU blue ; iris dark brown ; feet 

 ashy brown, with the webs black" (Salvadori). Total length 

 about 18-5 inches, wing 6'o, tail 4-5, culmen 1*9, tarsus 1*3. 



A specimen in the Museum of Tui-in from Sardinia, affected by 

 incipient albinism, is altogether much paler, has no black round the 

 neck, except on the nape, and has the white much more extended, 

 covering entirely the throat. 



Female. Differs from the male in lacking the clear white on the 

 head and in being much more rufous, especially on the underparts ; 

 crown, nape, and cheeks brown-chestnut, with blackish bars ; a 

 white streak below the eye, from the base of the bill nearly to the 

 nape ; chin, throat, and sides of the neck just near the head 

 whitish, dotted or streaked with blackish on the sides of the neck ; 

 upper tail-coverts scarcely deeper chestnut than the remainder of the 

 upper parts : bill dull plumbeous ; iris dark brown ; legs plum- 

 beous black. 



Young male. Very similar in plumage to the old female, only 

 somewhat more ruddy on the back. 



Young in down. Brown-grey ; upper part of the head and cheeks 

 dark brown ; a streak below the eye, from the base of the bill to 

 the nape, throat, and sides of the upper part of the neck dull 

 greyish white undulated with dusky ; a whitish spot on each side 

 of the rump just below the wings ; edge of the wing and under 

 wing-coverts whitish (Sardinia, Mus. Turin). 



Hah. From the basin of the Mediterranean to Turkestan ; 

 according to Finsch, also Southern Siberia ; North-western India 

 in winter ; accidental in Germany and Holland. 



«-/. c? 2 ad. et No locality. Purchased. 



pull. st. 

 y-l. 6 2 ad. sk. El Baheira, Tunis, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O. Salvin). 

 m. (S ad. sk. El Baheira, Tunis, March H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



(O. S.). [P.]. 



n. S ad. sk. Alexandria, Egypt, March Shelley Coll. 



(G. E. S.). 

 0. 5 ad. sk. Damietta, Egypt, Dec. Shelley Col. 



[Filipponi), 



