58 Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay’s 
I never saw a true Redstart on the Safed Koh or in the 
Hariab valley but on this one occasion. 
(504) ADELURA CERULEOCEPHALA. 
Phenicura ceruleocephala, Vigors, P. Z.S. 1830, p. 35. 
Ruticilla lugens, Severtzoff, Stray Feathers, mi. p. 428 
(autumn plumage). 
This bird was tolerably common in the valley when we 
arrived in April. It breeds in May and June. On the 22nd 
of May I found a nest in a crevice in the face of a precipitous 
cliff in a deep mountain-gorge. It was composed of small 
twigs and dried grass, thickly lined with camel’s hair. I shot 
the female as she left the nest, which contained five fresh 
eggs of a dull cream-colour, with a broad zone of the same 
colour, but darker, near the thicker end. 
It is somewhat strange that Bonaparte, who in all proba- 
bility never saw this bird alive, should have fallen into the 
error of classing it among the Flycatchers, to which, I should 
say, it has no structural affinity, albeit its habits are far more 
like those of a Flycatcher than of a Redstart. 
A young bird, apparently about a month old, which I shot 
on the Peiwar range on the 21st of June is throughout of a 
pale greyish brown tinged with rufous, and each feather 
margined black ; the primaries dark brown; a broad edging 
of white on the outer web of the secondaries, which become 
sullied with rufous towards their tips; tail dark brown. 
(514) CYANECULA SUECICA. 
Motacilla suecica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 336. 
The Bluethroats were so common in April and the com- 
mencement of May that I thought they were going to breed 
in the valley ; but they had all disappeared by the 14th May. 
(515) AcRocEPHALUS BRUNNESCENS. 
Acrobates brunnescens, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. x. p. 269. 
One specimen only, shot on the 2lst May, probably 
passing through. I never saw the species again. 
Iris pale yellowish brown ; maxilla dark brown, mandible 
albescent ; legs slaty brown. 
Length 7:5 inches. 
