PIEB WHEATEAB. 109 



The female is asliy brown above, with a paler tint on the head; 

 ashy below, with the eyebrows and throat white. 



Birds of the year, according to Degland, have the head varied with 

 white and brown; feathers of the back and wing coverts bordered 

 with russet; throat and front of neck barred with russet and black; 

 abdomen dirty white. The young males have the flanks ashy grey. 



The bird is figured from a specimen kindly sent me by the E.ev. 

 Canon Tristram. The egg is from my own collection: it is one of 

 a nest of five taken by Mr. Cullen at Kustendji. I have also a long 

 series of them from South Russia, collected by Herr Glitsch. 



Figured also by Pallas, Nov. Com. Petr., 14, pi. 22, fig. 3; Temminck, 

 pi. color. 257, f. 3, adult male; Guldenstadt, Nov. Comm. Petrop., vol. 

 xix., p. 468, pi. 15; Dresser, B. of E. 



