366 Mr. H. E. Dresser 07i a Collection 



Pratincola rubetra (Linn.). 

 One adult bird. 



RuTicfLLA PHCENicuRUS (Linn.), 



Five adult males ; said to be common. 



RuTiciLLA ocHRURA (Gmel.). 



One adult pair ; sent as " Black Redstarts," without any 

 further remarks. It is interesting to have these specimens 

 from the locality whence Gould described this species under 

 the name of Ruticilla erythroprocta. I may here remark 

 that in 1880 Mr. C. G. Danford gave me a couple of what 

 he said were exceedingly fine skins of the Black Redstart, 

 both very old males, which he had shot in Asia Minor the 

 year before. I put them on one side, and did not embody 

 them in my collection till some time after, and then, when I 

 placed them in my series of Ruticilla titys, I at once saw 

 that they were different, and on taking them to the British 

 Museum I found on comparison that they agreed with 

 Gould's types of JR. erythroprocta. A nest and eggs were 

 also sent by Mr. Zohrab along with the two birds above re- 

 ferred to, and fortunately one egg survived the general 

 wreck, and is now in my collection. The nest is small, 

 composed of fine rootlets and bents, with but little hair and 

 moss, and the ^^'^ is white, closely resembling those of 

 Ruticilla titys. 



Cyanecula wolfi, C. L. Brehm, 



Two adult males were sent, as also a nest with four eggs, 

 which latter closely resembled eggs in my collection obtained 

 in Germany. 



Erithacus rubecula (Linn.). 



One rather pale specimen, which agrees with West-Euro- 

 pean examples, and is not referable to Erithacus hyrcanus. 



Phylloscopus trochilus (Linn.). 

 Two adult examples. 



MOTACILLA ALBA, LiuU. 



One specimen, in change of plumage. 



