Notes on Severtzoff's 'Fauna of Turkestan.' 171 



/3. lutescens. 



Hehninthophaga celata, var. lutescens, Ridgway^ Am. Nat. 

 vii. Oct. 1873, p= 606. 



10. Helminthophaga peregrina, Cabanis, Mus. Hcin. 

 1851, p. 20. 



Sylvia per egrina, Wilson, Am. Oru. iv. 1811, p. 83, pi. xxv. 

 fiff. 2. 



XVIII. — Notes on Severtzqf's 'Fauna of Turkestan ' {Turkes- 

 tanskie Jevotnie). By H. E. Dresser. 

 [Coutinued from p. 94.] 

 180. Leptop(ecile sophi^, sp. nov. Severtzoff, pp. 66, 135, 

 pi. viii. figs. 8, 9. 



Stoliczkana stoliczkae, Hume, Stray Feath. ii. p. 513. 

 Hoi'izontal range. Resident in district I. 

 Vertical range. Winters in district 3 and breeds in district 4. 

 At page 135 Dr. Severtzoff writes as follows : — '' In form 

 this bird approaches the Tits, but in habits and in the form 

 of the bill, as well as in the sexes being different, it differs 

 from these ; and I have therefore deemed it best to sepa- 

 rate it generically. The characteristics are as follows : bill 

 slender, broader than high, compressed towards the end, nos- 

 trils narrow ; bill half covered with a membrane ; at the base 

 of the upper mandible are a few feathers, which are downy at 

 the base and hairy towards the point ; legs stout, tarsus long, 

 coarsely scutellated ; hind toe large, with a long arched claw, 

 other toes also long, but the claws are short ; wings short 

 and broad ; tail long and much graduated, composed of twelve 

 feathers ; tarsus with three long and then four short broad 

 scales ; 4th and 5th rectrices longest, the two central ones 

 1"' shorter, and the outer ones 3'" to 3V" shorter ; 1st primary 

 short, twice as long as the coverts ; 2nd quill shorter than the 

 10th, 3 = 9, 4=10, 5 = 6, the last two the longest. Male. 

 Crown bright brownish chestnut, glossed with violet ; a broad 

 yellowish white stripe passes over the eyes ; back greyish 

 brown, washed with bluish ; rump rich violet-blue ; cheeks, 

 sides of the neck and of the body, and throat bright blue, 



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