• Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s Types. 343 
one specimen, from Nubia, in the collection, which is a female 
or young male of Ruticilla titys. 
Sylvia mesoleuca, Ehr. fol. ee } is a distinct species from 
Ruticilla phcenicuruSj differing chiefly in having a white patch 
on the wing, and approaches very closely to, if it is not identical 
with, Ruticilla hodgsoni,'Moore (P. Z. S. 1854, p. 26, pi. Iviii.). 
There is but one specimen, from Djedda, of which it may not 
be out of place to give the following description:—Forehead, 
lores, ear-coverts, sides of neck, throat, and upper part of the 
breast glossy black; a broad white frontal band behind the 
black forehead; crown, nape, and mantle blackish or dusky 
slate ; rump and upper tail-coverts rusty red ; rectrices rather 
darker red, the two central ones with the inner web, except 
at the base, and the outer web dusky; quills blackish brown, 
all excepting the first edged with white on the central portion 
of the outer web, forming a patch about 1J inch in length, 
the white margin being largest on the innermost quills; lower 
parts from the throat ferruginous red, deepest on the breast, 
and palest on the lower tail-coverts, and whitish in the centre 
of the abdomen; lower wing-coverts rusty red. Culmen 0*51 
inch, wing 3T6, tail 2*4, tarsus 0*85. 
Of Ruticilla phcenicurus , in the Hemprich and Ehrenberg 
collection there are an adult and a young bird from Nubia, 
one from Syria, and one from Arabia. 
Sylvia lypura, Ehr. fol. ee. The type, a young bird from 
Abyssinia, is certainly an immature specimen of Cercomela 
melanura (Riipp.), Gray, Hand-list, no. 3242. 
In conclusion we must express our extreme appreciation 
of the very ready manner in which Dr. Cabanis gave us access 
to the collection and rendered us every assistance in his power, 
permitting us to enter the museum at all hours, and giving 
us duplicate keys to the cases, so that we could take out and 
examine the types at our leisure. 
