94 TURDIDJE. 



fulvous, and the secondaries with white patches as in the male, 

 but reduced in extent and slightly fulvous. 



Legs and feet black ; bill blackish brown to black, yellow or 

 yellowish at gape in the male and sometimes on base of lower 

 mandible also ; iris deep brown (Hume}. 



Length about 6 ; tail 2'5 ; wing 2*9; tarsus '9 ; bill from gape '65. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to Bhutan ; Assam ; the Khasi 

 hills ; Cachar ; Sylhet ; the Naga hills ; Manipur ; Thayetmyo. 

 In winter this species extends to Java and Timor, and in summer 

 it is found in Siberia, Mongolia, Japan, and China. 



642. Ruticilla erythronota. Eversmanns Redstart. 



Sylvia erythronota, Eversm. Add. Pall. Zoogr. Ross-Asiat. fasc. ii, 



p. 11 (1841). 

 Ruticilla rufogularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 27, pi. lix ; Horsf. Sf 



M. Cat. i, p. 306. 

 Ruticilla erythronota (Eversm.}, Hume, S. F. vii, p. 389 ; id. Cat. 



no. 498 bis ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 445 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, p. 277 ; 



Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 348. 



Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the forehead, crown, 

 nape, and hind neck are pale blue, nearly concealed by broad slaty- 

 grey fringes ; lores, cheeks, point of chin, sides of the head and of 

 the neck, produced round the upper back as a collar, black with 

 narrower slaty-grey fringes ; back, scapulars, throat, breast, and 

 flanks chestnut fringed with grey ; rump and tail chestnut, the 

 middle pair of feathers black, as also the tip of the outer web of 

 the outermost feather, and the terminal portion of the shaft of all 

 the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts black, tipped with white ; median 

 coverts and the inner greater coverts pure white ; remaining 

 coverts and the quills brown edged with pale fulvous, the primary- 

 coverts very largely white ; abdomen and under tail-coverts pale 

 fulvous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white with black bases. 

 In summer the fringes are all dropped. 



Female. Forehead, crown, nape, back, scapulars, and upper part 

 of rump brown ; lower part of rump and upper tail-coverts chest- 

 nut ; tail as in the male ; wing-coverts and quills brown, broadly 

 edged \vith fulvous white ; no white on wing ; a ring of pale 

 feathers round the eye ; lower plumage greyish brown, tinged with 

 dull orange in places, and paler on the abdomen. 



In the dry state the legs and bill are black. 



Length about 6'5 ; tail 2-9 ; wing 3*4 ; tarsus *9 ; bill from 

 gape -6. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to every portion of Kashmir, ex- 

 tending on the west to Hazara and Afghanistan and on to Asia 

 Minor. The most easterly locality from which I have seen a 

 specimen of this bird is Kotokhai in the Himalayas. In summer 

 this Redstart is found in Turkestan, and even in Mongolia and 

 Siberia, if R. alaschanica, Prjev., should prove to be the same 

 species, as is probable. 



