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RUTICILLA ERYTHROGASTRA 



(GULDENSTADrS REDSTART.) 



Motacilla erythrogastra, Giild. Nov. Coram. Petrop. xix. p. 469, pis. 16, 17 (1775). 



Chestnut-bellied Warbler, Lath. Synop. ii. pt. 2, p. 424 (1783). 



Sylvia erythrogastra (Giilcl.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 513 (1790). 



Motacilla ceraunia, Pall. Zoogr. Eosso-As. i. p. 478 (1811). 



Lusciola (Buticilla) aurorea, Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 59 (1840, nee Pall.). 



Buticilla aurorea, Bp. Cat. Metod. Ucc. Eur. p. 39 (1842, partim). 



Phcenicura reevesii, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xii. pt. ii. p. 963 (1843, nee Gray). 



Lusciola erythrogastra (Giild.), Schleg. Rev. Crit. p. xxxi (1844). 



Buticilla grandis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 112. 



"Buticilla tricolor, Gould," Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 296 (1850). 



Buticilla erythrogastra (Giild.), Bp. ut supra (1850). 



Buticilla vigorsi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 27. 



Chamcerrhous erythrogastra (Giild.), Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 8 (1854). 



Buticilla (Adelura) erythrogastra (Giild.), Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. pt. ii. p. 51 (1872). 



Figure notabiles. 

 Giildenstadt, I. c; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, pi. lx. 



c? ad. fronte nigra, pileo et nucha albis vix griseo tinctis : capitis lateribus, gula, gutture, collo, pectore 

 superiore et dorso nigris : uropygio, supracaudalibus et corpore toto subtus saturate ferrugineis : cauda 

 saturatiore, rectricibus centralibus fusco tinctis : alis nigris, remigibus ad basin albis plagam albam 

 magnam formantibus : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride fusca. 



2 mari dissimilis : capite et corpore supra fusco-cinereis, subtus pallidiore : supracaudalibus sordide rufe- 

 scentibus : cauda sicut in mare picturata sed sordidiore : subcaudalibus pallide rufis : alis saturate 

 griseo-fuscis, remigibus extus pallidiore marginatis, sed plaga alba nulla. 



Adult Male (Tiflis, Caucasus). Crown and nape white, tinged with silvery grey; a narrow band across the 

 forehead, sides of the head, entire throat, neck, upper breast, and back deep black ; the basal portion 

 of the quills white, this colour being more extended on the central remiges, and forming a large alar 

 patch ; rest of the wings black ; rump, upper tail-coverts, lower breast, and underparts generally rich 

 deep rufous or foxy red ; tail rather darker rufous, the central rectrices with a brownish tinge ; legs 

 and beak black; iris dark brown. Total length about 7 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 4*1, tail 3' 15, 

 tarsus l - 0. 



Adult Female (Tiflis) . Plumage generally brownish ash, darker on the crown and upper parts, and on the 

 abdomen fading to pale brownish ash-grey; tail rufous, the central rectrices tinged with brown; 

 upper tail-coverts rufous, but duller and paler than in the male ; under tail-coverts pale rufous ; quills 



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