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and Central India. "I never saw it/' remarks that lamented naturalist, 

 "south of the Nerbudda except once, on board ship a little south of 

 Bombay, where one took refuge in the month of November. It is 

 most common in Bengal, and the eastern side of India, and is a cold 

 weather visitant only. It extends throughout Central and Northern 

 Asia as far as Kamtschatka, whence it was first brought; and it has 

 occasionally been killed in Europe. In its manners it is shy, solitary, 

 and silent; haunts thickets and underwood, and feeds on the ground 

 on various insects. It is said especially to frequent the covered 

 plantations of the Betel-Vine." 



Two other species have been described in the Indian Fauna, viz: 

 Calliope pectoralis, the White-tailed Kuby Warbler, and C. Yeatmani, 

 taken at Pillenbheet in the North-west Provinces, and sent to Mr. 

 Tristram by Mr. Brooks, who described it, "Ibis," 1870, p. 444, as an 

 exact miniature of C. Kamtschatkensis. 



Dr. Leopold Von Schrenck, in his "Vogel des Araur-Landes," says 

 of this bird, "Two males of this beautiful bird of Eastern Asia, which 

 agree perfectly with skins of MiddendorfF from Udskoi-ostrog, and with 

 specimens in our Museum from China, as well as the description of 

 Pallas, and the figure of Gould, were killed by Herr Maack in the 

 bushes on the Amur River. One on the 26th. of July near the mouth 

 of the Ussuri, the other on Sep. 19th., a little above the Bareja 

 Mountains. The first (July) shows all over the body so thin a plu- 

 mage that the under wing feathers and the middle tail feathers towards 

 the ends were scarcely more than the naked shaft. Yet the moulting had 

 not begun, and not a single fresh feather was to be found anywhere. 

 The other specimen, on the contrary, (Sep.,) had completed its moult, 

 and had therefore many fresh and beautiful feathers. Above a strong 

 olive brown shading; below a dull yellowish colour, which disappears 

 with the loss of the edges of the feathers, so that the back is then 

 only greyish brown. Near the crop grey, and the front white. The 

 beautiful red of the throat then becomes paler, and has no longer the 

 silver shining on the tips of the feathers." 



Mr. Stewart, Deputy Surgeon General, informs me that he got 

 specimens of this bird in various parts of upper India, but only in 

 the cold season. "It is of retired habits," he writes, "frequenting 

 grounds and gardens. It has a sweet note, like that of the large Black 

 and White Wagtail, M. melanoiiteraP 



Radde has the following remarks of this bird in Eastern Siberia: — 

 "Among nine specimens brought home with me I found only one 

 female, the rest were old males. The male birds move about in small 

 flocks separately from the females. In plumage all the specimens show 



