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[Approximate date and pinned location, deduced from the literature, text and the expedition's detailed itinerary.] "This species, called by me after my travelling companion, was found by us only in the Kan-su mountains, and is much rarer than C. kamtschatkensis; it most probably inhabits only the bushes of the alpine region, and there principally the neighbourhood of brooks and rivulets. We did not succeed in finding a nest ; but in the latter part of May I killed a female bird in which I found a completely developed greenish egg, which, however, was broken by the shot and could not be measured correctly."(Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], 1877, p. 182) A jpg of the illustration plate appears below. (ibid. 174-175 ). [Chinese Rubythroat above and Ala Shan Redstart below.] Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], N. (1877), ‘On the birds of Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the solitudes of Northern Tibet’, translated from Russian by E. Carl Craemers, in Rowley, G.D., ed. Ornithological miscellany, vol. 2, pp. 137-204, 271-320, & 379-438. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35519712 (page 137, title page of paper). Accessed 30 August 2025.