PRATINCOLA. 



except on the middle of the abdomen, which is pure while. The red.brown 

 colour is most intense on the throat and breast > lighter and mingled with 

 albescent on the sides of the abdomen and lower tail coverts ; tibial plumes 

 grey ; loreal region somewhat dotted with white ; sides of the head and i 

 pure grey, separated from the red-brown of the throat and breast by an 

 irregular blackish line ; under wing coverts tinged with rusty yellow ; feet and 

 upper mandible brown, the lower yellow ; 4 th quill longest, fifth longer than 

 the third, 2nd about equal to the 8th. 



Length. 5-33 inches; wing 2*88; tail 3-3; tarsus 078 (Cabanis). The 

 distinguishing characters of this species are the rich orange-brown of the 

 throat and breast, and the black stripe running from the bill down the sides 

 of the neck to the breast and terminating below the bend of the closed wing ; 

 bill dusky above, yellow beneath ; irides dark brown. (Holdsworth.) 



Hab. Central India and the N.-W. Provinces. Also Ceylon and Cashmere. 



The Rufous-breasted Fly -Catcher appears to have the usual habits of the other 

 species. According to Brooks it breeds in Cashmere at from 6,000 to 7,000 

 feet elevation. There is no record of its nest having been found. 



Gen. PratinCOla, Koch. Syst. d. Baier. Zool. p. 190. 



Bill short, straight, wider at the nostrils than high ; nostrils hidden ; second 

 primary longer than the secondaries, the first not half the length of the second. 



213. Pratincola macrorhyncha, Stoiickza, J. A. S. B. xli. 



p. 238; Hume, Str.F. 1876, p. 40; 1877, p. 131, 241, 244; 1879, P- 53- 

 Sharpe, Cat, Birds, B. Museum, vol. iv. p. 182 ; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, 

 p. 138. Pratincola rubetraoides, Jerd. B. Ind. iii. App. p. 872 (ex. Jameson 

 MS. Dtsc Nulla) Dresser, B. Eur. parts 23, 24; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 239. 

 Pratincola rubetra, Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 354. Pratincola Jamesoni, Hume^ 

 Sir. F 1877, p. 239 (nom emende). STOLICKZA'S BUSH-CHAT. 



Adult Male. A broad stripe over the eyes and over the greater portion of 

 the ear coverts white, with a slight buffy tinge ; lower parts of the lores dusky ; 

 chin, throat and entire lower parts, including lower tail coverts and tibial 

 plumes, white with a yellowish tinge and a very feeble rufescent tinge on 

 breast and flanks ; wing lining and axillaries pure white, the former slightly 

 mottled with dusky ; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, back and scapulars light 

 sandy buff, striated longitudinally with hair brown ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts white, most of the feathers tinged towards their tips with pale rusty 

 buff ; primaries and secondaries hair brown, margined on the outer webs with 

 light buff and tipped with yellowish white, the primaries more narrowly, the 

 secondaries more broadly ; tertiary greater coverts, or perhaps I should 

 call them lower scapulars, white ; tertiaries and greater and median secondary 

 coverts deep brown, broadly margined with pale, more or less rufescent buff ; 

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