Notes on Severtzoff’s ‘Fauna of Turkestan 171 
- ft. lutescens. 
Helminthophaga celata, var. lutescens, Ridgway, Am. Nat. 
vii. Oct. 1873, p= 606. 
10. Helminthophaga peregrina, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 
1851, p. 20. 
Sylvia peregrina, Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. 1811, p. 83, pi. xxv. 
fig. 2. 
XVIII.— -Notes on Severtzoff’s ‘Fauna of Turkestan’ (Turkes- 
tanskie Jevotnie). By H. E. Dresser. 
[Continued from p. 94.] 
180. Leptopcecile sophle, sp. nov. Severtzoff, pp. 66, 135, 
pi. viii. figs. 8, 9. 
Stoliczkana stoliczkce, Hume, Stray Feath. ii. p. 513. 
Horizontal range. Resident in district I. 
Vertical range. Winters in district 3 and breeds in district 4. 
At page 135 Dr. Severtzoff writes as follows :— c< In form 
this bird approaches the Tits, but in habits and in the form 
of the bill, as well as iu the sexes being different, it differs 
from these ;• and I have therefore deemed it best to sepa¬ 
rate it generically. The characteristics are as follows: bill 
slender, broader than high, compressed towards the end, nos¬ 
trils narrow; bill half covered with a membrane; at the base 
of the upper mandible are a few feathers, which are downy at 
the base and hairy towards the point; legs stout, tarsus long, 
coarsely scutellated; hind toe large, with a long arched claw, 
other toes also long, but the claws are short; wings short 
and broad; tail long and much graduated, composed of twelve 
feathers; tarsus with three long and then four short broad 
scales; 4th and 5th rectrices longest, the two central ones 
V" shorter, and the outer ones S'" to 3J W shorter; 1st primary 
short, twice as long as the coverts; 2nd quill shorter than the 
10th, 3 = 9, 4=10, 5 = 6, the last two the longest. Male. 
Crown bright brownish chestnut, glossed with violet; a broad 
yellowish white stripe passes over the eyes ; back greyish 
brown, washed with bluish; rump rich violet-blue; cheeks, 
sides of the neck and of the body, and throat bright blue, 
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