874 FROCEEDING,S OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vouxxiv. 
Geographical distribution. — Northwestern Arabia, with adjacent 
part of Turkey in Asia; Algeria; Morocco; casual in southeastern Spain 
(Valencia). 
Description.. — Adult male. — "Entirely bright sandy rufous above, 
with a vinous shade, and with darker rufous shaft-lines to some of the 
dorsal feathers; wing-coverts entirely sandy rufous like the back; 
quills dusk}' brown, externally sandy rufous and edged with white at 
the ends, the inner secondaries entirely sandy rufous, the first primary 
externall}^ edged with white; centre tail-feathers sandy rufous with 
black shaft stripes, the remainder black, the penultimate feather edged 
with white near the end of the outer web, the outermost one white for 
nearly the whole extent of the outer web; crown of head sandy rufous 
like the back, with a vinous tinge; forehead and eyebrow white, suc- 
ceeded by a broad band of black across the fore part of the crown, 
continued into two long ear-tufts above the ear-coverts and reaching to 
the sides of the nape; nasal plumes, lores, feathers below the eye, fore 
pai-t of ear-coverts black, this black patch extending down the centre 
of the cheeks; hinder ear-coverts and adjacent sides of neck, as well as 
the remainder of the cheeks and throat, white; a very broad crescentic 
band of black on the lower throat and fore neck; remainder of under 
surface from the chest downwards white, the sides of the breast vinous- 
sandy, and the sides of the body and thighs washed with vinous; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wing sandy; quills 
dusky below, ashy isabelline along the inner web: 'bill dusky horn- 
colour, paler on the mandible; feet pale dusky horn -colour.' 
""In breeding-plumage the vinaceous colour of the upper parts 
becomes obliterated and the back is of a rufous-sandy colour; the head 
sometimes shows a white band behind the black frontal one."^ 
Otocoris hilopha seems most nearly related to the longirostris group, 
but is less in size than any of these, and is further distinguished by 
its uniform fulvescent buft'y upper surface. 
The birds from Arabia are very possibly not the same as those from 
Algeria, particularly as their range does not seem to be continuous. 
OTOCORIS PENICILLATA PENICILLATA (Gould). 
Alaiida jjenidllafa GovhT), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, p. 126. 
Otocoris penicillata Gray, Genera Birds, II, 1844, p. 382, pi. xi. 
Otocoris scriha Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium, I, 1850, p. 246. 
Otocoris albigula Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium, I, 1850, p. 246. 
Otocoris larvata De Filippi, Arch. Zool. Anat. and Phys., II, 1863, p. 382. 
Otocorys penicillata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIII. 1890, p. 530. 
Otocorys penidllata transcaspica Floricke, Die gefiederte Welt, 1898, p. 46. 
Otocorys penicillata iranica Zarudny and Harms, Orn. Monatsber., 1902, p. 53. 
Cha7's. suhsp. — Resembling Otocoris longirostris longrrostris.^ but 
very much smaller, the black of the auriculars continuous with that of 
the jugulum. 
1 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 538. 
