4 
the two medial feathers dusky, as is also the exterior web of the 
outer and tip of each feather, but paler ; bill and legs black. 
Length, 7 inches ; wing, 4^ ; first quill 1 \ inch shorter than the 
second, the third T fi -y longer than the second, fourth and fifth equal 
and longest, the third and sixth equal and but a trifle shorter than 
the fourth and fifth, the seventh a \ inch longer than the second, 
the eighth j- shorter than the second ; tail, 3 ; bill to gape, f ; and 
tarse, 1. 
Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 
This may eventually prove to be the female of a species allied to 
R- erytlirog astro , but having no white wing-patch. 
9. Ruticilla aurorea, Pallas. 
Syn. Motacilla aurorea, Pall. Zoogr. i. p. 477. KittL Kupf. Voeg. 
t. 26. f. 1. Gmel. S. N. L. i. p. 976. Lath. Hist. vii. p. 92. 
Phoenicura Reevesii, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1832) p. 1. McClel- 
land, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 161. 
Ruticilla aurorea , G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180 (excl. syn.). 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 
Lusciola aurorea , Schlegel, Faun. Japon. t. 21 d. 
Raurian Warbler , Lath. 
Reeves's Redstart, Gray. 
Hab. N. India; China; Japan. In Mus. East India Company. 
Male : forehead, lores, ear-coverts, throat, fore part of breast, back, 
upper wing-coverts, apical and basal portion of the secondaries and 
tertiaries, and the two medial tail-feathers black ; exterior margin of 
the outer tail-feather and apical margin of the rest dusky black ; me- 
dial portion of both webs of the secondaries and tertiaries white ; 
crown of head and back of neck slaty ash, rather whitish above the 
ear-coverts ; breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, upper and lower 
tail-coverts and tail (except as above) rufous. Female : above brown, 
the wing-patch rufescent white ; beneath rufescent ; upper and lower 
tail-coverts and tail (except the medial feathers of the latter which 
are dusky brown) rufous ; bill and legs black. 
Length, 5 inches ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2 \ ; bill to gape, J- ; and tarse, -f-. 
10. Ruticilla leucoptera, Blyth. 
Syn. Phwnicura leucoptera, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 962. 
Ruticilla leucoptera , Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134; Catal. 
B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 168. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 
JIab. Malacca ; Java. In Mus. As. Soc. Bengal. 
“ Size of R. phoenicura, and much resembling in plumage R. nipa- 
lensis, but smaller and the wings much shorter than in the latter 
species ; it is also generally similar to R. phoenicura, but has no white 
on the forehead, which, with the crown, neck, and fore part of the 
back, are ash-grey ; the middle of the back is black, as are also the 
lores, ear-coverts, throat and breast ; and the rest of the under parts, 
with the rump and tail, except the medial feathers of the latter, are 
