CINCLUS 27 



unsquamated, the lower rump and upper tail-coverts alone being squamated 

 or marked with, semicircular bars, and the dark portions of the under parts 

 dull, dark-earth-brown. Culmen 0'8 to 0*9, wing 3'2 to 3*6, tail 2*0 to 2*1, 

 tarsus VI to 1*15 inch. 



Hob. Siberia, in the Baikal district. 



37. SUBSP. ClNCLUS LEUCOGASTER. 



" Cinclus leucogaster Eversm." Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 252 (1850) ; 

 Gould, B. of Asia, iv. p. 24 ; Dresser ix. p. 20 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib., 0. 

 p. 211. 



Ad. (Dauria). Differs from C. baicalensis in having the head and 

 neck paler, and the under parts down to the vent white, excepting the 

 flanks, which are brown. Culmen 0'8 to 0'9, wing 3 -25 to 3 '85, tail 2'0 

 to 2'4, tarsus I'l to 1'25 inch. 



Hob. Altai range, Turkestan, Mongolia, and the countries 

 north of Kashmir, ranging into the Baikal district. 



38. SUBSP. CINCLUS SATURATUS. 



Cinclus saturates, Dresser, ix. p. 20 (1895). C. sordidus, (nee. Gould), 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib., 0. p. 214. 



Ad. (Baikal District). Differs from C. baicalensis in having the white 

 on the throat and breast obscured by brown so that the separts are whity- 

 brown and not white. Culmen V2, wing 3*7, tail 2*35, tarsus 1*12 inch. 



Hob. Irkutsk to the Baikal district, to S.W. Kansu and 

 N, Tibet. 



This is evidently the Cinclus sordidus of Russian authors, for 

 the type was sent to me from Russia, as belonging to that 

 species, from which, however, it differs considerably. 



39. BROWN DIPPER. 

 CINCLUS ASIATICUS. 



Cinclus asiaticus, Swains., Faun. Bor. Amer. Birds, p. 174 (1831), 

 Gould, B. of Asia, iv. pi. 21 ; Sharpe, Cat/B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 314, 

 Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 163. 



Nambong-Jcarriak Lepch ; CJiulia-nakka, Bhut. 



Ad. (Turkestan). Entire plumage chocolate brown, the head and neck 

 rather paler, the feathers in places with rather paler margins. Culmen 

 0'92, wing 41, tail 2'95, tarsus 118 inch. The young have the upper 

 parts grey, the feathers tipped with black, the sub-terminal portion more 



