1878.] MR. H. SEEBOHM ON SYLVIA BLANFORDI. 980 



pastor, Strickland, are undoubtedly P. indica, Blyth. This species, 

 distinguished, amongst other characters, from P. rubicola (Linn.), by 

 its pure white unspotted rump, and its almost entirely black axil- 

 laries, was first discovered in Europe by Harvie-Brown and myself 

 in the valley of the Petchora ; Drs. Finsch and Brehm found it on 

 the Obb; and I brought home several skins from the Yenesay. 

 Although Severtzoff records both species from Turkestan, there can 

 he scarcely any doubt that Pallas's birds from the Irtish and the 

 Tobol belong to the eastern species, which must therefore stand as 

 Pratincola maura, Pall. (Reise Russ, Reichs, ii. p. 708). 



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