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of the males of “form C,” and since the deseription only speaks of 
white on the sides of the neck and not on the nape, we conclude that 
M. maura belongs to the smaller form without white on the nape, con- 
sequently to “form C.” There remains now only to determine the name 
of the large “form A.” By some Indian ornithologists it has been 
designated as “P. robusta TRISTRAM,” but, as shown by Mr. Hume (Stray 
Feath., rx, 1880, pp. 133, 136), this name belongs only in part to our 
bird. Rey. Tristram originally (Ibis, 1870, p. 497) gave this name to two 
alleged Indian specimens of Stonechats, one of which belonged to the 
present large form of P. maura, while the other represents an entirely 
different species, which Oates now shows to be the larger form of P. 
sibylla from Madagascar (Fauna, Brit. Ind., Birds, 11, 1891, p. 58). 
Mr. W. EB. Brooks seems to have intended to name it, for Mr. Hume 
says (op. cit., p. 136): “Mr. Brooks persistently urges me to assign 
a separate spec ‘ific name to this form, and he declares that if I do not, - 
he will,” but Iam unaware that Mr. Brooks has done so. 
Since the above was written and set in type I find that Dr. Th. 
Pleske has discussed the same question and come to similar results 
(Wiss. Res. Przewalski, Zool., Vig,, pp. 46, seqs.), but too late for any 
other notice than the adoption of his name for “form A,” the names of 
the three then being as follows: 
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1. Pratincola maura (“form C0”); 
2. Pratincola maura indica (“form Bb”) ; 
3. Pratincola maura przewalskii (“form A”). 
In Japan only the small form, without white on the hind neck, occurs. 
This is very fortunate, as the name of the Japanese birds will remain 
unaffected, whatever be the fate of the Indian races. 
As to Mr. Henson’s specimens, I would eall attention to the fact that 
the two adult males collected on August 30, are molting both quills 
and contour feathers, No. 194 having already finished the molt of the 
former. Their coloration is considerably brighter and redder than 
that of the October specimen in the National Museum (No. 96274); the 
broad light margins to the feathers of the throat are particularly bright, 
being of a rich vinaceous cinnamon in No. 193, and but slightly paler 
in No. 194. 
I have above already indicated the chief color differences between 
the Kuropean P. rubicola and the Asiatic P. maura, at least so far as 
the old males are concerned. The material before me suggests another 
and very striking difference in the coloration of the females and the 
young males. 
On the 5th of July, 1882, Mr. P. L. Jouy collected at Fuji a breeding 
female (U. S. Nat. Mus, No. 88637) in very abraded plumage. The 
whole upper side is nearly uniform dull sepia-brown; the light edges to 
the wing feathers are nearly worn away, and the under surface is a dirty 
dull buffstrongly marked withtawny onthe breast; chin, throat, and upper — 
jugulum is of the same dirty buff as the abdomen, sheen spmeuiaee more — 
whitish without trace of dusky or dark brownish. Ydentical with this 
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