SCOTOCEBCA INQUIETA. 



(STREAKED SCKUB-WARBLER.) 



Malurus inquietus, Cretzschm. in Riipp. Atlas, p. 55, tab. 36. fig. B (1826). 



Curruca famula, Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. bb (1828). 



Prinia inquieta (Cretzschm.), Rupp. Neue Wirbelth., Vogel, p. 113 (1835-49). 



Drymoica inquieta (Cretzschm.), Rupp. Syst. Uebers. p. 57 (1845). 



Drymoeca eremita, Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 76. 



Drymoica eremita, Tristr., Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 199. no. 2783 (1869). 



Drymoeea inquieta (Cretzschm.), Heuglin, Ibis, 1869, p. 129. 



" Sylvia famula, Hempr. & Ehr.," id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 244 (1869). 



Scotocerca {Mai. inquietus, Rupp.), Sundevall, Av. Meth. Tent. p. 7 (1872). 



Melizophilus striatus, Brooks, Ibis, 1872, p. 180. 



Atraphomis platyura, Severtz. Turk. Jevotn. p. 124 (1873). 



Scotocerca inquieta (Cretzschm.), Blanford, E. Pers. ii. p. 207 (1876). 



Figuras notabiles. 



Riipp. Atlas, pi. xxxvi. fig. B ; Wyatt, Mamm. & Avif. Sinai, pi. xvii. fig. 2 ; Blanford, 

 E. Pers. ii. pi. xiii. fig. 2. 



Ad. corpore supra pallide griseo-fusco, plumis pilei conspicue dorsi obscurius fusco striatis : alis brunneis, 

 remigibus pallidiore margin atis : cauda nigro-fusca, indistincte pallidiore marginata : corpore subtiis 

 albo, hypochondriis griseo-cervino lavatis : gula, conspicue nigro-fusco striata: loris et stria superciliari 

 cervinis, vitta, inter rostrum et oculum et stria postoculari nigricantibus : capitis lateribus griseo-cervinis : 

 rostro fusco, mandibula ad basin fusco-aurantiaca : pedibus flavido-fuscis : iride f'usca. 



Adult Male (Baluchistan, March 8th). Upper parts pale greyish hair-brown, the crown with distinct, the 

 back with indistinct darker streaks ; wings light brown, with paler margins to the feathers ; tail 

 blackish brown, with indistinct paler margins to the feathers ; underparts white, the flanks washed with 

 greyish buff, the throat clearly streaked witb blackish brown ; lores and a narrow superciliary streak 

 sandy buff ; a blackish spot in front of the eye and a small blackish streak behind the eye ; sides of the 

 head greyish buff: bill dark brown, the base of the lower mandible orange-brown; legs yellowish 

 brown; iris brown. Total length about 4 inches, culmen - 45, wing 1-85, tail l - 65, tarsus 075. 



Specimens from Transcaspia are paler and greyer on the upper parts than the specimens above described, 

 and have the underparts whiter ; but none exhibit a tendency towards the warm isabelline colour so 

 characteristic of the western form, S. saharce. The sexes do not differ in plumage. 



From Arabia Petraa and Palestine through Transcaspia and Persia to the vicinity of the Indus 

 river the present species is to be found in stony desert places. 



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