514 BIRDS OCCURRING* IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



upper tail-coverts, and margins of the wing-coverts, but more 

 particularly in the rufescent hue of the lower parts, including 

 the under tail-coverts, these being white in the insular form."— 

 Legge, " Ibis," 1878, 203. 



Captain Legge's description, or rather remarks, led me at first 

 to suspect that he might possibly have got specimens of 

 Cyornis (Alseonax) mandellii (S. F., II., 510; VII., 456) ; but 

 he says nothing of the conspicuous white ring round the eye, 

 while our bird has no conspicuous patch on the lower part of 

 the face. Comparison is clearly necessary. 



688 ter.-- Sturnia sinensis, Qm. 



"Length, 7*1; tail, 2*2, rounded j wing, 4*55; tarsus, 

 11 ; bill, straight, 0'75. 



" Iris black ; bill blue, with the point yellowish ; feet reddish 

 grey ; upper parts of a very light ashy grey, with the fore- 

 head, lower tail-coverts, scapulars, wing-coverts, throat, 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts white, more or less tinged, 

 especially in the spring, with rusty ; quills black, with a 

 metallic lustre ; rectrices similar, with a white tipping, running 

 somewhat up the sides of the feathers." — David and Oustalet. 



(i All the wing-coverts, rump, the lateral tail-feathers and 

 the entire lower surface of the body from the breast to the 

 tips of the lower tail-coverts pure white ; head, neck, breasu 

 and back uniform ashy grey ; quills brazen black, somewhat 

 inclining to green ; the two middle tail-feathers similar, tipped 

 white; the rest white but pure black towards the base."— 

 Waff lev. 



(These two descriptions differ somewhat, but I have no 

 specimen at hand here to compare or correct them by.) 



763 &/s.— Otocoris alpestris, Lin. 



As mentioned {ante, p. 422), my specimens of 0. elwesi 

 labelled by Mr. Blanford himself are, in my opinion, simply 

 O. pencillata, but as Dresser takes a different view, I reproduce 

 his remarks, as also his description of alpestris. 



" 0. pencillata CGould). 



" Inhabits south-eastern Europe, and thence ranges east- 

 ward to Thibet. Since writing my article on this species I 

 have examined Mr. Gould's beautiful series of Shore-Larks, 

 in which are several specimens from Kulu of the so-called 



