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This may eventually prove to be the female of a species allied to 
R. erythrogastra, but having no white wing-patch. 
9. RuTicILLa AUROREA, Pallas. 
Syn. Motacilla aurorea, Pall. Zoogr.i. p.477. Kittl. Kupf. Veg. 
t. 26. f.1. Gmel. S. N. L.i. p. 976. Lath. Hist. vii. p. 92. 
Phenicura Reevesii, J. E. Gray, Zool. Mise. (1832) p.1. M‘Clel- 
land, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 161. 
Ruticilla avrorea, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180 (excel. syn.). 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 
Lusciola aurorea, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. t. 21 p. 
Daurian Warbler, Lath. 
Reeves’s Redstart, Gray. 
Hab, Assam; China; Japan. In Mus. East India Company. 
Male: forehead, lores, ear-coverts, throat, fore part of breast, back, 
upper wing-coverts, apical and basal portion of the secondaries and 
tertiaries, and the two medial tail-feathers black ; exterior margin of 
the outer tail-feather and apical margin of the rest dusky black ; me- 
dial portion of both webs of the secondaries and tertiaries white ; 
crown of head and back of neck slaty ash, rather whitish above the 
ear-coverts ; breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, upper and lower 
tail-coverts and tail (except as above) rufous. Female: above brown, 
the wing-patch rufescent white ; beneath rufescent ; upper and lower 
tail-coverts and tail (except the medial feathers of the latter which 
are dusky brown) rufous; bill and legs black. 
Length, 5 inches ; wing, 3; tail, 23; bill to gape, $; and tarse, 4. 
10. Rutrcrtua LevcopTeRa, Blyth. 
Syn. Phenicura leucoptera, Blyth, Journ. A. 8. Beng. xii. p. 962. 
Ruticilla leucoptera, Blyth, Journ. A. 8. Beng. xvi. p. 134; Catal. 
B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 168. G.R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 
Hab. Malacca; Java. In Mus. As. Soc. Bengal. 
“Size of R. phenicura, and much resembling in plumage R. nipa- 
lensis, but smaller and the wings much shorter than in the latter 
species ; it is also generally similar to R. phenicura, but has no white 
on the forehead, which, with the crown, neck, and fore part of the 
back, are ash-grey ; the middle of the back is black, as are also the 
lores, ear-coverts, throat and breast ; and the rest of the under parts, 
with the rump and tail, except the medial feathers of the latter, are 
bright ferruginous, the exterior web of the outermost tail-feather being 
marked with dusky ; wings dusky, having a large white patch occu- 
pying the base of the secondaries and tertiaries, extending over both 
webs of each feather; bill and feet black. According to season, the 
dorsal plumage is margined with brown edgings, the under parts 
more slightly with greyish, and the wing-coverts with brown. Fe- 
male plain brown above, paler beneath, with rufous tail, and the same 
great white wing-patch as in the male. 
‘Length about 6 inches; of wing, 23; tail, 23; bill to gape, 3; 
tarse, 3.” 
