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HYPOLAIS CALIGATA. 



(BOOTED WARBLER.) 



Motacilla salicaria, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 493 (1811, nee Linn.). 



Sylvia caligata, Licht. in Eversm. Reise nach Buchara, p. 128 (1823). 



Sylvia rama, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 89, partim. 



Iduna (Lusciola) caligata (Licht.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. pp. lviii & 190. no. 235 (1840). 



Sylvia scita, Eversm. Add. Pall. Zoogr. fasc. iii. p. 12 (1842). 



Salicaria caligata (Licht.), Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 30 (1844). 



Calamodyta caligata, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. vol. i. p. 172 (1844-49). 



Calamoherpe caligata (Licht.), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 576 (1849). 



Calamoherpe scita (Eversm.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 285 (1850). 



Iduna salicaria (Pall.), Bp. torn. cit. p. 295 (1850, nee Linn.). 



"■Iduna caligata, Gray" (ubi 1 ?), fide Bp. torn. cit. p. 295 (1850). 



Phyllopieuste rama (Sykes), Jerdon, B. of India, ii. p. 189 (1863, partim). 



Hypolais caligata (Licht.), Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 510 (1867). 



Iduna caligata (Licht.), G. R. Gray, Hand-list, i. p. 209. no. 2967 (1869). 



Jerdonia agricolensis, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 182. 



Calamodyta agricolensis (Hume), Tristram, Ibis, 1870, p. 494. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. pi. 375 ; Bree, B. of Eur. pi. to p. 76. 



Ad. corpore supra grisescenti-brunneo, pileo saturatiore et uropygio vix pallidiore, stria superciliari pallide 

 cervina : remigibiis fuscis, omnibus, cum tectricibus alarum, rufescente bruimeo marginatis : rectricibus 

 fuscis, pallidiore marginatis : corpore subtus albido, pectore cum hypochondriis cervino lavatis, mento 

 et gula, albis : rostro brunnescenti-corneo, mandibula pallidiore : pedibus pallide brunneis : iride fusca. 



Juv. adulto similis sed rufescentior, remigibus cum tectricibus alarum lathis rufescente brunneo marginatis : 

 corpore subtus rufescente cervino lavato, sed mento albo. 



Adult (Syr Darja, 28th July). Upper parts greyish brown, with a slight warm reddish tinge; from the base 

 of the hill, passing over the eye, a tolerably distinct buffy streak ; crown darker than the back, and 

 rump rather lighter : quills dark brown, all, as well as the wing-coverts, having reddish brown lighter 

 margins ; tail brown, with lighter margins to the feathers ; underparts white, on the flanks and sides of 

 the breast washed with warm huff, and to a slight extent similarly tinged on the abdomen ; chin and 

 throat pure white ; sides of the neck coloured like the back, but rather paler ; beak dark brownish 

 horn, the under mandible lighter; iris brown; legs dull brown. Total length about 4"75 inches, 

 culmen 0-53, gape 0-58, wing 2-45, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-85 ; first primary nearly 03 inch longer than the 

 primary coverts, and T05 shorter than the second, which, again, is 018 less than the third, which last is 



the longest. 



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