Compendium der" neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 449 



Hab. : Apparently represects the common Hedge-Sparrow 

 from the eastern shores of the Black Sea to Persia. 



244. Accentor rufilatus. 



Sewertzow, R. B. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. 7 p. 664. 



Intermediate between A. collaris und A. nipalensis, having the 

 pale coloration of the former and the uniform rufous flanks of the 

 latter, though the rufous is very much paler. Total length 6,6 

 inches; culmen 0,6; wing 3,9; tail 2,5; tarsus 0,9. 



Hab.: Turkestan. 



Hab.: From Turkestan to the neighbourhood of Gilgit and 

 Northern Cashmere. I 



245. Acrocephalus Dyhowshii. 



L. Stejneger, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus. Vol. 6 p. 92. 



Above rather light olive-brown, more decidedly olive, or some- 

 what tinged with russet, on rump and tail, and slightly more grayish 

 across nape; a distinct superciliary stripe of pale buffy-grayish, 

 paler anteriorly; a rather indistinct gray loral streak, and a narrow 

 brown postocular streak along upper edge of auriculars; auricu- 

 lars, sides of neck and breast, and entire sides liglit grayish olive, 

 the first very narrowly and indistinctly streaked, especially an- 

 teriorly, with white ; remaining lower parts duU white, very faintly 

 shaded across jugulum with pale brownish gray; crissum, buffy- 

 white, and flanks tinged with deeper buff. Tail much graduated 

 (the lateral feathers 0,65 of an inch shorter than the intermediae), 

 all the rectrices showing indistinct, faintly darker bars, the inner 

 webs (except of middle feathers) decidedly darker than the outer, 

 and the four outer pairs distinctly tipped with pale grayish, be- 

 coming nearly pure white on tips of inner webs, these pale tips 

 growing gradually narrower toward middle feathers. Maxiila dark 

 brown; its edge, with the mandible, pale brownish (in dried skin), 

 the base still paler; „iris hazel;" legs and feet pale flaxbrown (in 

 dried skin), the toes slightly darker. Wing 2,85; the secondaries 2,15; 

 the third quill longest, second and fourth equal; tail 2,40; culmen 

 (from frontal feathers) 0,48; bill from nostril 0,31; tarsus 0,90; 

 middle toe 0,60. 



Hab. : Kamtschatka. 



246. Acrocephalus ilensis. 



N. A. Sewertzow, Ibis (5) Vol. 1. p. 66. 

 This is an intermediate form between the east-eiiropean A. du- 

 metorum Blyth, and the western A. streyerus Vieill. 

 Hab.: Ili, Ferghana and Pamir. 



247. Acrocephalus Mendanae. 



H. B. Tristram, Ibis (5) Vol. 1. p. 43. pl. 1. 



A. S Acrocephalo otatare (Tatare loiigitosiri) coloribus simil- 

 limus, sed paullo minor, rostrum paullulum incurvato. Non solum 

 tectricibus alae iuferioribus flavis, sed etiam remigum pogonii in- 

 terni dimidio laete flavo, ita ut tota ala inferior sit flava, apice 



