80 Mr. W. T. Blanford on Indian and Persian Birds. 



11. I believe that R. rufogularis, Moore, is probably the 

 same asZ?.ERYTiiRONOTA,Eversm. Unfortunately the type spe- 

 cimen of the former is inaecessible at present, being amongst 

 the collection formerly belonging to the East-India Company ; 

 and I have been unable hitherto to see Eversman^s description 

 of R. erythronota, there not being a copy of the work in which 

 it is described (Addenda ad Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As., Fasc ii.) 

 in the British Museum, the Zoological Society^s library, or 

 in any private library to which I have access"^. 



12. Daulias hafizi (Severtzov). 



Luscinia hafizi, Sev., Turkestanskie Jevotnie, p. 120. 

 " Bulbul,'^ Persice. 



D. a peraflfini D. luscinia (vel Luscinia vera) cauda semi- 

 pollice longiore atque magis rotundata distinguenda. 

 Notseum vero plerumque minus rufum et gastrseum pal- 

 lidius quara in specie Europaea; sed specimina qusedam 

 ex Persia allata cum Europseis colore congruunt. Long, 

 alse maris 3'4-3-5, caudse 29-3*05, feminae al. 3*25, 

 caud. 2-87 poll. Angl. 

 The Persian Nightingale, the true Bulbul of the Persians 

 (no connexion of the Pycnonoti, to which the same name is 

 applied by the natives of India), appears to differ constantly 

 from the Eiiropean bird in its longer and more rounded tail. 

 The plumage is, as a rule, rather less rufous above and paler 

 below, especially on the throat and breast ; but some Persian 

 specimens agree fairly in colour with their western repre- 

 sentatives. The song of the Persian bird, as Major St. John 

 pointed out to me, and as had previously been noticed by Mr. 

 Blyth (Ibis, 1867, p. 18), differs greatly from that of the Eu- 

 ropean Nightingale. It is shorter and less varied. 



I believe this is the bird which Severtzov has called Lus- 

 cinia hafizi, because Herr Meves, of Stockholm, showed me 

 a Turkestan specimen received from Severtzov. Severtzov^s 



* [I possess one livraison of this work (the 3rd), which was given me 

 by the late Prince Charles Bonaparte. I was told by him that the scarcity 

 of the book was occasioned by the copies having been destroyed by a fire 

 shortly after publication. Further information on this point and as to 

 where a perfect copy may be consulted, would be very acceptable to — 

 P. L. S.] 



