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2. A MonoGrapH oF THE Genus RuTIcILLA, witH DeEscrRiP- 
TIONS OF SOME NEw SPECIES. 
By Freperic Moors, Assist. Mus. East Inp1aA Company. 
(Aves, Pl. LVII.—LXI.) 
Genus Ruticiixa (Ray), Brehm. 
Syn. Ficedula, Boie. Phenicura, Swains. Chaimarrornis, Hodgs.* 
1. Ruricrtua PHa@NIcURA, Linn. 
Syn. Motacilla phenicurus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 335. 
Sylvia pheenicurus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 511; Gen. Hist. vii. p. 21. 
Ruticilla sylvestris, Brehm, Voeg. Deutschl. p. 363. t. 21. f. 4. 
Phenicura ruticilla, Swains. Class. of B. ii. p. 240. Gould, Birds 
of Eur. t. 95. 
Ficedula phenicura, Boie, Isis (1822), p. 553. 
Phenicura muraria, Swains. Faun. Bor. Amer. ii. p. 489. 
Ruticilla phenicurus, Bonap. Geogr. Comp. List of B. p. 15, et 
C. G. Av. p. 296. G. R. Gray, Gen. of B.i. p. 180. Blyth, Journ. 
A. 8. Beng. xvi. p. 133; Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 168. 
? Pheenicura albifrons, Brandt. 
The Redstart, Bewick. 
Hab. Europe; W. Asia; N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 
2. RuTICILLA PHENICUROIDES, nobis. (Pl. LVII.) 
Forehead, lores, ear-coverts, throat and breast black, extending 
much lower down on the latter than in R. pheenicura; crown, neck, 
back and upper wing-coverts ash, with a rufous tint, the ash palest 
on the crown; wings brown, with the edges of the exterior webs 
paler ; from breast to vent, under wing-coverts, upper and lower 
tail-coverts and tail (except the two medial feathers which are brown) 
tufous. Male. 
Length, 5 inches ; wing, 3, the first primary being a } inch longer, 
and the second a i inch shorter than in R. phenicura; tail, 23; 
bill to gape, ;7,, more elongated, not so broad at base, and it is also 
a trifle longer; and tarse, 4. 
Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 
This species is closely allied to R. phenicura, but is readily di- 
stinguished from it in the absence of the white on the front of the 
crown. | 
3. Ruricriya TiTHYys, Scopoli. 
Syn. Sylvia tithys, Scopoli, Ann. i, p. 157. Lath. Ind. Orn, ii. 
p- 912; Gen. Hist. vii. p. 23. 
Ruticilla tithys, Brehm, Voeg. Deutsch]. p. 365. Gould, Birds 
of Eur. t.96. G.R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180, et Cat. Brit. B. 
in B. M. p. 62. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 
? Motacilla erythacus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 335. 
* Altered to Chaemarrhornis by Agassiz, in his ‘Nomenclator Zoologicus’. 
