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643. Ruticilla hodgsoni, Hodysoris Redstart. 



Ruticilla erythrog-astra (Quid.), ajmd Blyth, Cat. p. 168 (part.). 

 Ruticilla hodgsoni, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 26, pi. Iviii ; Horsf. 8? 



M. Cat. i, pi 303 ; Jerd. B. L ii, p. 138 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xlv, pt. ii, p. 199 ; Hume, Cat. no. 498 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 302 ; 



Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 344 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 195. 



Thar-capnij Nep. 



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

 sides of head aod neck, chin, throat, and uppar breast are deep 

 black with a few grey fringes ; crown, nape, and back ashy, the 

 portion of crown above the forehead and at the sides nearly white ; 

 lower rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut, except the 

 terminal two thirds of the middle pair of feathers of the latter, 

 which are black ; wing-coverts black, edged with ashy ; quills dark 

 brown, a few of the later secondaries margined with white about 

 their middle portion, forming a patch in the closed wing ; lower 

 plumage chestnut. Males in summer are unknown to me, but 

 probably differ in wanting the grey fringes on the throat and 

 breast. 



Female. Upper plumage and wings brown tinged with ashy, the 

 feathers of the wings edged paler; lower rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail chestnut except the middle pair of tail-feathers, which are 

 blackish ; a ring of whitish feathers round the eye ; lower plumage 

 ashy brown, albescent on the abdomen and turning to pale rufous 

 on the flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts. 



Bill black ; gape fleshy yellow ; iris dark brown ; feet black or 

 brownish black, soles yellow ; claws black (Scully}. 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-8 ; wing 3'4 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from 

 gape -7. 



Distribution. Nepal ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; the Daphla hills in 

 Assam ; the Naga hills ; Manipur. This species is only a winter 

 visitor to the above localities. It summers in Western China and 

 probably in Central Asia. This Redstart has been erroneously 

 recorded from Afghanistan and Gilgit. 



644. Euticilla rufiventris. The Indian Redstart. 



(Enanthe rufiventris, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, a" Hist, Nat. xxi, p. 431 

 (1818). 



Ruticilla indica, Blyth, Cat. p. 168 (1849). 



Ruticilla phcenicuroides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 25, pi. Ivii ; Horsf. 

 # M. Cat. i, p. 301 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 136. 



Ruticilla nipalensis (Hodgs.\ Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 26 ; Horsf. $ 

 M. Cat. i, p. 302. 



Ruticilla rufiventris (Vieill.}, Jerd. B. 2nd. ii, p. 137; Blanf. 

 J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 60 ; Hume, N. % E. p. 321 : id. S. F. v, 

 p. 36 ; id. Cat. no. 497 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 342 ; Hume, 

 S. F. xi, p. 194 ; Oates in Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 64. 



Thir-thira, Thirtir-kampa, Hind. ; Phir-ira, Lal-girdi, Beng. ; Nuni- 

 budi-gadu, Tel. 



