3 
Male : forehead, lores, ear-coverts, throat and breast black ; fore 
part of crown clear white (much narrower than in phoenicura) ; hind 
part of crown, neck, back and upper wing-coverts fine ash, lightest 
on the crown ; wings above dusky brown, the exterior margin of the 
basal half of the secondaries white, forming a patch ; from the breast 
to vent, under wing-coverts, rump, upper and lower tail-coverts and 
tail (except the interior and exterior margins only of the two middle 
feathers which are dusky brown) rufous red. The female may be 
readily distinguished by a general puffy appearance, and by the rela- 
tive length of wing, &c. 
Length, 6 inches ; wing, 3-f ; tail, 2-f ; bill to gape, -f- ; and tarse, -J. 
6. Ruticilla rufogularis, nobis. 
Male : crown and back of neck mixed grey and ash ; lores, ear- 
coverts and sides of neck black ; wings and medial tail-feathers dark 
brown ; apical margin of the exterior web of the outer tail-feather 
dusky ; smaller wing-coverts (except the feathers immediately on 
the shoulder), scapulars, basal portion of the speculars, and apical 
margins of the greater wing-coverts white ; exterior margin of the 
secondaries pale rufescent ; throat and breast, back and upper tail- 
coverts and tail rufous ; abdomen, under wing- and tail-coverts pale 
rufescent. Female : cinereous brown above, rufescent beneath ; wings 
dark brown, margined with pale rufescent ; lower part of back, upper 
tail-coverts and tail rufous, the two medial feathers dark brown, ex- 
terior margin of the outer dusky. 
Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 
7. Ruticilla erythrogastra, Giildenstadt. 
Syn. Motacilla erythrogastra , Giildenst. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. 
p. 469. t. 16, 17. Gmel. S. N. L. i. p. 975. 
Sylvia erythrogastra , Lath. Ind.Orn.ii. p. 503 ; Gen. Hist, vii.p. 27. 
Motacilla ceraunia , Pallas, Zoogr. i. p. 478. 
Ruticilla aurorea, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180 (nec 
Pallas). 
Ruticilla grandis , Gould, P. Z. S. (1849) p. 112. 
Ruticilla eruthroqastra , Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. Gould, Birds 
of Asia, t. 50. 
The Chestnut-bellied Warbler , Lath. 
Hab. Cashmere; Kumaon; Nepal. In Mus. East India Company. 
“ This species frequents the gravelly hollows of the Caucasian tor- 
rents during the whole of the summer, and migrates southward, in 
search of food, on the approach of winter ; it runs along the banks of 
rivers ; is restless, but not fearful ; often moving its tail while sitting 
on the low shrubs ; it makes its nest among the branches of the sea 
buckthorn, of the berries of which it is very fond.” — Guldenstadt. 
8. Ruticilla Yigorsi, nobis. 
Female : above, head, neck and back cinereous ; wings dusky, with 
paler margins ; beneath rufescent; upper tail-coverts and tail rufous, 
