NOTICES OF SOME TURKESTAN BIRDS, SevertsOV. 425 



33. — Salicaria capistrata, Sev., differs from S. arundinacea 

 by its blackish-brown vertex ; the tail as long as the wing 

 (that of S. arundinacea shorter) ; remiges : 4 longest., 3=5,2=8 ; 

 the 1st abortive, not longer than its coverts ; S. arundinacea, 

 remiges : 3=4 75; 2 = 6; 1st abortive longer than its coverts.) 



The European S. obscurocapilla, Dub., S. fruticeti, 

 Naum.), also with dark crown (vertex), has a still more 

 pointed wing than S. arundinacea; rem. 3 7 4, 2=4. My 

 S. capistrata, I have just found out=S. agricola, Jerd. 



34. — Salicaria microptera, Sev., {brevipennis, Sev., uec Dohrn.), — U 

 differs from the Algerian brachyptera, Zaub., by its more 

 greyish colour, and pure-white, not rufous, wing-edge. Remiges : 

 3=4,longest ; 2=7 ; the 1st, abortive, twice longer than its 

 coverts. 



35. — Salicaria nmgnirostris, Siljeb. — Olive-brown, below 

 fulvous-white, sides lighter olive-brown ; wings and tail brown 

 with rufous-olive edges to each feather ; pale superciliary 

 baud long, reaching behind the eye, but faintly marked. 1st 

 abortive quill = its coverts ; 3=4757276; wing, 24 ; tail, 2 ; 

 beak, 0*5, larger and broader than that of S. p>alustris. 



36. — Salicaria eurhyncha, Sev. — As the preceding, but the 

 superciliary band very marked, ochreous white ; the wing more 

 rounded, the whole colouring lighter. 1st abortive quills shorter 

 than its coverts, 3 = 475767277; or 47375767277; 

 or 3=4 = 576727 7. These individual differences in the wing 

 very small, the quills 3, 4, 5 being always almost or quite equal. 



37. — Salicaria macr onyx, Sev. — Like both preceding, voice dif- 

 ferent, wing longer, no light superciliary band at all, only a very 

 small whitish spot above each eye. The bill is smaller than that 

 of magnirostris ; the nails much larger, but not larger than those 

 of eurhyncha the hind nail equalling in length its toe. 1st 

 abortive quill shorter than its coverts, 3 = 4, 2 = 5. Wing, 2'6 ; 

 tail, 2-2. 



38. — Salicaria sphenura. — Tail feathers pointed ; frish (?) 

 mucronated ; bill short and broad ; colour of the preceding, but 

 without any superciliary band or spot ; only before the eye, a 

 dark stripe between 2 light-fulvous stripes to the beak. Remiges, 

 37475/6 = 2; or 374757276; abortive quill shorter 

 that its coverts ; wing, 2*6 ; tail, 2*25. 



Salicariae fruticicolae (gen Herbivox, Swinh.) (a) Beak com- 

 pressed before the nostrils, like Phyllopneuste. 



39. — Salicaria pallida, Eversm. nee Ehrb. ; beak small, tarsi 

 with 7 scutre, rectrices almost equal, only the outmost O'l 

 shorter; quills 37475767277; the 3rd, 4th, 5th, almost 

 equal ; the 1st abortive, twice longer than its coverts. Colour 

 light grey-brown or greyish fallow(?), superciliary stripe whitish 

 from the beak to the hind edge of the eye, not further behind ; 



