80 Mr. W. T. Blanford on Indian and Persian Birds. 
11. I believe that R. rufogularis, Moore, is probably the 
same as R. ERYTHRONOTA,Eversm. Unfortunately the type spe¬ 
cimen of the former is inaccessible at present, being amongst 
the collection formerly belonging to the East-India Company ; 
and I have been unable hitherto to see Eversman's description 
of R. erytlironota } there not being a copy of the work in which 
it is described (Addenda ad Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As., Ease ii.) 
in the British Museum, the Zoological Society's library, or 
in any private library to which I have access*. 
12. Daulias hafizi (Severtzov). 
Luscinia hafizi, Sev., Turkestanskie Jevotnie, p. 120. 
“ Bulbul," Persice. 
D. a peraffini D. luscinia (vel Luscinia vera ) cauda semi- 
pollice longiore atque magis rotundata distinguenda. 
Notseum vero plerumque minus rufum et gastraeum pal- 
lidius quam in specie Europsea; sed specimina quaedam 
ex Persia allata cum Europaeis colore congruunt. Long, 
alae maris 3’4-3*5, caudae 2*9-3*05, feminae al. 3*25, 
caud. 2*87 poll. Angl. 
The Persian Nightingale, the true Bulbul of the Persians 
(no connexion of the Pycnonoti, to which the same name is 
applied by the natives of India), appears to differ constantly 
from the European bird in its longer and more rounded tail. 
The plumage is, as a rule, rather less rufous above and paler 
below, especially on the throat and breast; but some Persian 
specimens agree fairly in colour with their western repre¬ 
sentatives. The song of the Persian bird, as Major St. John 
pointed out to me, and as had previously been noticed by Mr. 
Blyth (Ibis, 1867, p. 18), differs greatly from that of the Eu¬ 
ropean Nightingale. It is shorter and less varied. 
I believe this is the bird which Severtzov has called Lus¬ 
cinia hafizi , because Herr Meves, of Stockholm, showed me 
a Turkestan specimen received from Severtzov. Severtzov's 
* [I possess one livraison of this work (the 3rd), which was given me 
by the late Prince Charles Bonaparte. I was told by him that the scarcity 
of the book was occasioned by the copies having been destroyed by a fire 
shortly after publication. Further information on this point and as to 
where a perfect copy may be consulted, would be very acceptable to— 
P.L.S.] 
