uit Dr. Jcidnii's ' liirds n/' liidiu.' 15 



refcriccl liitlicrto to *S. u'lniiit/ie niiglit be locxiiiiiincd advanta- 

 geously. S. leucuroides, Guerin, is figured in the Atlas to MM. 

 Ferret and Galenicr's ' Voyage en Abyssinie ' (Zoologie, pi. xi.). 



I!K). Saxicola CAiMsTKATA, Ciould, H. As. |)t. xvii. 

 Distiiiet from *S'. leucomela (I'allas), which is also figured by 

 Mr. Gould [cf. Ibis, 1H()(), p. 101)). 



492. Saxicola atro(;li.akis, nobis; Gould, Hirds of Asia, 

 pt. xvii. pi. 



Distinct from S. dcserti, llijppeil, as is also a fine new species 

 akin to it, S. montana, received from Tibet [cf. Ibis, ut supra). 

 Both of these also are rejjresented to have brown females*. 



Genus Cercomela, Bonap. (ii. j). 133). 



Among the characters of this group, as distinguished from 

 Saxicola, should be noticed the comparative shortiuiss of tin; 

 tarsi. 



495. UUTICILLA PHCENICUllA. 



As Dr. Jerdon remarks in his *A|)pendix' (p. 870), this 

 should probably be erased as distinct from R. phwriicuruidcs. 

 The Phwnkura ruticilln of Mr. Ewei-'s list (P. Z. S. 1812, p. 92) 

 was doubtless /■*. rujiventris. 



.'">()(). llUTIClLLA AUKOIIKA. 



Spix'imens of this bird occur, rarely, in collections from Ma- 

 lacca, when; of coin's(; it nnist be a winter visitant ; and it is 

 th(^ only Redstart which 1 have seen from the Malayan penin- 

 sula. 



5()l'. RUTICILLA CvElllJLl'XX'Kl'IIAI.A. 



Tlu! female of this bird is coloured very differently from the 

 male. It is plain brown, with a whitish belly and a little 

 white on the wings ; upper tail-coverts dark ferruginous, and a 

 little of this colour margining the base of the outer tail-feathers. 



* " At tho Sult-lako in Ladakh, on one occasion a bird evidently of this 

 geiniH was observed, about the size of tho Wliinchat ; upper parts a bluish- 

 bhick ; Ijreast black ; belly and k>\v(!r partswhite. This 1 (;onsider a rare, 

 if not an inidescribed spiscies. A specimen was not procured." (A, Leith 

 Adaiii.s, I'./. S. lHr>!),p. 180.) 



